The German-based AI factory will feature 10,000 GPUs, deployed in NVIDIA DGX B200 systems and NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers, and will enable European industry to accelerate a broad range of manufacturing applications, from design, engineering and simulation to factory digital twins and robotics.
In addition, NVIDIA also announced that European manufacturers including BMW Group, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz and Schaeffler are transforming their end-to-end product lifecycles - from simulated product design and factory planning to AI-driven operations and logistics - by running NVIDIA-accelerated applications from software leaders such as Ansys, Cadence and Siemens.
“In the era of AI, every manufacturer needs two factories: one for making things, and one for creating the intelligence that powers them,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “By building Europe’s first industrial AI infrastructure, we’re enabling the region’s leading industrial companies to advance simulation-first, AI-driven manufacturing.”
The industrial AI factory will feature NVIDIA’s systems and servers, and will run NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries, NVIDIA RTX and NVIDIA Omniverse-accelerated workloads from software providers such as Siemens, Ansys, Cadence and Rescale.
The factory will be built following the framework highlighted in the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory design and operations. As part of this blueprint, Cadence’s Reality Digital Twin Platform will be used to simulate and optimise the entire AI factory in a physically accurate virtual environment, enabling the engineering teams to build a smarter, more reliable facility.
This investment will serve as a launchpad to accelerate AI development and adoption for European manufacturers in anticipation of AI gigafactories.
