Hitachi, Ltd. has unveiled a global Hitachi AI Factory, built on the NVIDIA AI Factory reference architecture, aiming to centralize and accelerate the development and deployment of physical AI solutions across its core business sectors. Powered by Hitachi iQ with NVIDIA HGX B200 systems featuring NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Hitachi iQ M Series with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition GPUs, and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, the AI Factory underlines Hitachi’s commitment to creating AI that interacts directly with the physical world. Moreover, it strengthens the company’s HMAX portfolio, offering AI solutions for mobility, energy, industrial, and technology sectors.
The centralized AI Factory equips Hitachi’s global teams with a unified, high-performance AI computing infrastructure. Leveraging NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platform, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise for production-grade AI and NVIDIA Omniverse libraries for simulation and industrial-scale digital twins, the factory enables rapid development of advanced physical AI models. These models can capture and interpret data from real-world environments via sensors and cameras, make decisions, and act autonomously based on the insights gathered.
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This development aligns with Toshiaki Tokunaga, President and CEO of Hitachi, Ltd., who highlighted the Hitachi-NVIDIA partnership’s role in accelerating AI innovation. He stated that NVIDIA RTX PRO servers enhance reasoning and physical AI, expand digital twin capabilities, optimize physical assets including social infrastructure and unlock new possibilities, such as boosting productivity across all business operations.
Strategically located across the US, EMEA, and Japan, the AI Factory allows Hitachi engineers to collaborate seamlessly while accessing low-latency, high-powered computing resources. This global infrastructure supports the creation of diverse physical AI applications, driving efficiency, productivity, and safety across industries.
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Jun Abe, General Manager of the Digital Systems and Services Division, emphasized, “The strategic collaboration between Hitachi and NVIDIA is becoming a key engine for solving complex real-world problems and accelerating social innovation. Our collaboration leverages NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure to achieve both Digital Transformation (DX) and Ecological Transformation (GX) with solutions like Hitachi Rail’s HMAX, Hitachi Vantara’s AI solutions portfolio, Hitachi iQ, and Hitachi’s liquid-cooled AI data centers. By establishing a global NVIDIA AI Factory, we can now operate as a true ‘One Hitachi’ across regions and organizations. This synergy will accelerate physical AI innovations, as exemplified by HMAX.”
Hitachi regards the AI Factory as a critical step toward its Lumada 3.0 vision, which integrates domain expertise and AI technologies to co-create digital transformation solutions, reduce operational costs, and boost efficiency. Justin Boitano, Vice President of Enterprise AI Products at NVIDIA, added, “AI Factories are the engines of a new industrial revolution, converting enterprise data into autonomous intelligence for both software and the physical world. With NVIDIA’s accelerated compute and software, Hitachi’s AI Factory infrastructure provides a transformative platform for developing and deploying enterprise and physical AI.”
By merging IT, OT, and hardware capabilities, Hitachi’s AI Factory is poised to redefine industrial AI, turning advanced data insights into actionable intelligence and pioneering a new era of physical AI innovation.
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