Hitachi Announces NVIDIA AI Factory to Accelerate Physical AI Innovation

Hitachi announced the establishment of a global Hitachi AI Factory based on NVIDIA AI Factory reference architecture, yielding a centralized infrastructure designed to accelerate the development and deployment of physical AI solutions across Hitachi’s core business sectors. The AI Factory is 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 platform. This strategic initiative directly supports Hitachi's ambition to create and deploy AI that interacts with the real world. The AI Factory will also enable Hitachi to further expand HMAX— the company’s family of AI-enabled solutions solving a wide-range of complex problems in the Mobility, Energy, Industrial and Technology sectors.

The centralized AI Factory provides Hitachi’s global teams with a powerful unified AI computing infrastructure to run applications and AI workflows developed on the NVIDIA full-stack AI platform, which includes NVIDIA AI Enterprise for production-grade AI as well as NVIDIA Omniverse libraries for simulation, industrial scale, and physically accurate digital twins. This infrastructure allows for the rapid development and deployment of advanced physical AI models. These models will acquire and interpret information from physical environments via cameras and sensors; determine the next steps to take; and execute actions based on that data.

The Hitachi AI Factory is strategically distributed across the United States, EMEA, and Japan ensuring that Hitachi’s engineers can collaborate seamlessly and access powerful computing resources with low latency, no matter where they are. This interconnected network will support the creation of a wide range of physical AI applications, driving new levels of efficiency, productivity, and safety across industries.

The initiative reinforces Hitachi's commitment to using cutting-edge technology to drive both social and business innovation.