(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) Nvidia’s Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing and the inventor of CUDA, says the company has “shipped... let's put it in the hundreds of thousands of Grace standalone servers.” In May, Nvidia disclosed that it had shipped over 2.5 million Grace CPUs in total, and the company announced a partnership with Meta to deploy standalone Grace servers in February. Buck’s comments suggest the scale of deployment may be even larger, however, as Nvidia tries to compete in a market dominated by other players. Go deeper with TH Premium: CPU It’s an interesting comment, though not a surprising one. Nvidia has become the dominating force of Silicon Valley as demand for its GPUs skyrocketed during an unprecedented data center buildout for AI inference. Since peaking earlier this year, however, around $1 trillion in Nvidia’s market cap has been wiped away as investors rally behind CPU makers like Intel .…