Modal said in a company blog post on October 19, 2026 that it plans to roll out support for NVIDIA’s Arm-based Vera CPU to power Modal Sandboxes, the company’s first departure from an all-x86 fleet, after benchmark results it published showed up to double the task throughput of an equivalent x86 machine under load. NVIDIA hand-delivered Modal’s first Vera CPU server to the company’s San Francisco office in the week before the announcement, Modal said. Vera is NVIDIA’s Arm-compatible processor…