In the career for carrying artificial intelligence outside the laboratories and making it tangible in daily life, Hitachi has decided to take a firm step announcing in California the creation of a global AI Factory supported by Nvidia technology, with which he intends to accelerate the development of models capable of interpreting the physical world and making decisions in real time.
The project is not limited to an investment in hardware, but seeks to become an innovation ecosystem distributed worldwide. The United States, EMEA and Japan will be the main nodes of this network, which will allow engineering equipment to collaborate with low latency and immediate access to large computing resources.
For Hitachi, the alliance with Nvidia is strategic. Jun Abe, general director of the Digital Systems and Services Division, summarizes it clearly: “Strategic collaboration between Hitachi and Nvidia is becoming a key engine to solve complex problems of the real world, accelerating social innovation.” The manager explains that thanks to NVIDIA infrastructure, the company may address both digital transformation (DX) and green transformation (GX).
In parallel, the president and CEO of Hitachi, Toshiaki Tokunaga, insisted that the power of the RTX Pro servers will accelerate the development of digital twins and the optimization of physical assets. According to Tokunaga, this advance “opens new possibilities such as the improvement of productivity in all business activities.”
The infrastructure behind the ad
Hitachi ai Factory combines different high performance computing solutions:
Hitachi IQ systems with NVIDIA HGX B200 and GPUS BLACKWELL.
The IQ M series with GPUS NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 SERVER EDITION.
High speed networks based on the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet platform.
Integration with NVIDIA software, including AI Enterprise for production environments and omniverse libraries for simulation and digital twins, will allow developing applications that not only analyze data, but also act autonomously in physical scenarios. Sensors and cameras will collect information, advanced models will interpret the situation and the machines will execute actions safely and efficiently.
Beyond the laboratory: real applications
The impact of this infrastructure will be felt in projects such as HMAX, the Hitachi solution family with AI applied to critical sectors. Examples already visible include the railway management of Hitachi Rail or data centers with liquid cooling that the company uses to support generative AI applications.
Justin Boitano, vice president of business products in Nvidia, defined it with forcefulness: “The AI factories are the engines of a new industrial revolution, turning the data of companies into autonomous intelligence both for software and for the physical world.”
Lumada 3.0: the framework of the corporate vision
The creation of the AI Factory is integrated into the Lumada 3.0 road map, the Hitachi model to help organizations solve business and social problems through digital co-creation. In essence, it is about transforming data into real value, reducing costs and eliminating operational inefficiencies.
Hitachi’s competitive advantage lies in his ability to unite IT, OT and Hardware under the same strategy. From the consulting and engineering design to the implementation of products, the company seeks to lead the industrial AI market by offering disruptive solutions that change the rules of the game.
