NVIDIA Empowers Organizations with "AI Factory" Blueprint and New RTX PRO Servers
At COMPUTEX, the company revealed its plan for empowering organizations to build their own "AI factories." Think about it: a world where artificial intelligence, design, engineering, and many business applications all converge. And how are they doing this? With jaw-droppingly capable new technologies like NVIDIA RTX PRO™ Servers and a blueprint called the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory proven design.
At the core of it all are the new RTX PRO Servers. These aren't ordinary servers by any means; they are packed to the limit with NVIDIA's latest RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. If you have heard of NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture, you would know that it is all high-performance and amazing energy efficiency. These servers are designed to deliver that power into the data center, enabling nearly any enterprise workload to be run faster and more powerfully. It's a quantum leap from relying on CPUs alone and tapping the power of GPU acceleration.
Building Your Own AI Powerhouse: The Enterprise AI Factory Architecture
So how do you actually build one of these AI factories? NVIDIA is offering a tried-and-tested design to blaze the trail. This is not just servers; this is an end-to-end on-premises infrastructure design. It includes the RTX PRO Servers, blazing-fast NVIDIA Spectrum™-X Ethernet networking, smart NVIDIA BlueField® DPUs, tested storage systems, and the all-important NVIDIA AI Enterprise software. The task? To speed up from product design and engineering simulations to an increasing number of AI-driven business systems and even teams of digital AI assistants.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang put it this way: "AI is changing all industries. every company will have or rent AI factories to run their business and power the smarts in their products." He emphasized that NVIDIA, along with its global partners, is dedicated to helping companies bring AI into their operations and build genuinely AI-native products.
Industry Giants Are Already on Board
This isn't abstract; leading companies are already architecting their AI factories based on this new NVIDIA architecture. Cadence, Foxconn, and Lilly are a few of the early movers to board this train. Foxconn, for example, sees this as a way to re-architect electronics manufacturing, power their smart electric vehicles, create digital twins of their factories, and make inroads in healthcare and robotics.
Young Liu, chairman of Foxconn, highlighted their enthusiasm: "Foxconn is harnessing the capability of NVIDIA Blackwell to build AI infrastructure that will transform every part of electronics manufacturing."
The Universal GPU for Tomorrow's Workloads
The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU is launched as a general-purpose workhorse for the data center. It is aimed at accelerating a wide range of heavy-duty applications, including multimodal AI inference (AI senses many types of data like text and images), physical AI, design use cases, scientific computing, graphics, and video.
System partners around the globe will be delivering NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers, which will support up to eight of these high-end GPUs, along with other state-of-the-art NVIDIA networking gear like BlueField-3 DPUs and ConnectX®-8 SuperNICs.
In order to utilize this hardware to its maximum, NVIDIA offers its AI Enterprise software platform. This includes NVIDIA NIM™ and NeMo™ microservices for improving AI inference performance and agent accuracy, and AI Blueprints for building digital humans and AI query engines. For customers who have industrial digital twins and robotics simulation workloads on the NVIDIA Omniverse™ platform, these servers are bound to provide exceptional performance.
Accelerating AI Factory Deployment
The NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory certified design is all ease. It's based on recommended hardware configurations and includes recommendations for software stacks. This guidance is designed to help companies build and operate their on-premises AI factories seamlessly, with best practices in place for scaling as their AI needs grow. For even larger, more demanding AI workloads, customers also can choose NVIDIA HGX™ B200 systems.
A Growing Ecosystem of Support
NVIDIA is not alone in this venture. There is a massive ecosystem of partners gearing up to facilitate this shift to AI factory infrastructure. Gigantic system vendors like Cisco, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Lenovo will deliver end-to-end solutions. Numerous other data center system partners like Advantech, ASRock Rack, ASUS, and Supermicro will deliver NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers.
These AI factories will be employed to accelerate popular enterprise software from companies like Ansys, Cadence, CrowdStrike, and Siemens. Storage platforms will be offered by partners DDN, Dell, and NetApp. And major consulting firms like Accenture, Deloitte, and Infosys await the opportunity to help enterprises make the transition.
When Can You Get Started?
If you want to have your own business AI factory using RTX PRO Servers, NVIDIA encourages clients to reach out to their preferred technology provider to start making plans.
