The CPU's growing role in agentic AI infrastructure

Modern AI infrastructure, particularly in the realm of agentic AI, is often discussed through the lens of accelerators, model sizes, and training clusters. However, making large-scale agentic AI systems functional relies heavily on the CPU within these pipelines. As agentic AI deployments expand across cloud and enterprise environments, the CPU increasingly acts as the control plane for the entire system. It manages the coordinated movement of data between storage, memory and accelerators, ensur