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OEM · Original Equipment Manufacturer

A systems vendor that turns chipmakers' reference designs into deployable servers and racks; the integration, support, and warranty point between silicon and operators.

Also written as: OEMs

Current numbers

~2,300 kg/m² footprint average; obtain OEM foot/wheel reactionsfootprint-average screening load for a ~1,500 kg GB200 NVL72 rack over ~0.64 m²; obtain OEM foot/wheel and rolling reactionsas of 2026-08-24 · register ↗
~1.36-1.5 tGB200/GB300 NVL72 populated rack mass (~3,000-3,300 lb wet), ~0.64 m² footprint; ~120 kW NVIDIA-stated consumption / ~132 kW OEM-provisioned (GB200), ~135-142 kW (GB300)as of 2026 · register ↗
88 cores / 1.5 TBNVIDIA Vera CPU: 88 Olympus cores, 176 threads, up to 1.5 TB LPDDR5X @ ~1.2 TB/s, OEM avail. H2 2026as of 2026 · register ↗

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