Hitachi, Ltd. announced on September 25th, 2025, the establishment of a global Hitachi AI Factory, built upon NVIDIA’s AI Factory reference architecture. This centralized infrastructure is designed to accelerate the development and deployment of physical AI solutions across Hitachi’s core business sectors – namely Mobility, Energy, Industrial, and Technology. The initiative represents a strategic alignment between Hitachi’s deep operational technology (OT) expertise and the powerful accelerated computing and AI software stack provided by NVIDIA. The factory’s computing power is derived from a combination of Hitachi iQ with NVIDIA HGX B200 systems featuring NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Hitachi iQ M Series with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition GPUs, and the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform.
The AI Factory provides Hitachi’s global teams with a unified AI computing infrastructure, enabling the execution of applications and AI workflows developed on the NVIDIA full-stack AI platform. This includes NVIDIA AI Enterprise for production-grade AI and NVIDIA Omniverse libraries for simulation, industrial-scale applications, and physically accurate digital twins. The infrastructure enables the rapid development of advanced physical AI models that can acquire and interpret information from physical environments using cameras and sensors, determine subsequent actions, and execute those actions based on the processed data. This development builds upon recent commentary from Toshiaki Tokunaga, President and CEO of Hitachi, Ltd., who highlighted the potential of Hitachi iQ, built on NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers, to accelerate AI innovation, particularly in areas such as digital twin development and physical asset optimization.
Strategically distributed across the United States, EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa), and Japan, the Hitachi AI Factory ensures seamless collaboration among Hitachi’s engineers and provides access to powerful computing resources with low latency, regardless of location. This interconnected network will support the creation of a wide range of physical AI applications, aiming to drive new levels of efficiency, productivity, and safety across various industries. Jun Abe, General Manager of the Digital Systems & Services Division at Hitachi, emphasized that the collaboration with NVIDIA is becoming a key engine for solving complex real-world problems and accelerating social innovation, particularly through solutions like Hitachi Rail’s HMAX, Hitachi Vantara’s AI solution portfolio, and Hitachi’s liquid-cooled AI data centers. According to Justin Boitano, Vice President, Enterprise AI Products at NVIDIA, AI factories are crucial for converting enterprise data into autonomous intelligence for both software and the physical world, with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing and software providing a transformative platform for building and deploying enterprise and physical AI. The initiative is viewed by Hitachi as a fundamental step towards achieving its Lumada 3.0 vision, an operating model designed to help enterprises solve business and societal problems through co-created digital transformation.
