Japan's Cloud Leaders Partner with NVIDIA to Build Advanced AI Infrastructure

Japan Cloud Leaders Build NVIDIA AI Infrastructure to Transform Industries for the Age of AI By Investing.com

TOKYO, Nov. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA AI Summit Japan"NVIDIA today announced that Japan cloud leaders SoftBank (TYO:9984) Corp., GMO Internet Group, Highreso, KDDI (OTC:KDDIF), Rutilea and SAKURA internet are building AI infrastructure with NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking and software to accelerate transformation across the nation's robotics, automotive, healthcare and telecom industries. The services from Japan's cloud providers are supported through a Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) program to supply critical compute resources across industries. The cloud providers are operating their AI data centers across the country's central, northern and western regions to support development with national and regional NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure. Japan's companies stand to benefit tremendously from the new industrial revolution powered by AI, said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. Company employees will supercharge their speed and productivity by automating work with AI agents. Industrial companies of tomorrow will operate dual factories " new AI factories to produce software intelligence for the products and machines their factories make today. Working with NVIDIA, Japan's cloud providers are building the AI factories essential to reinvent the country's automotive, robotics, telecommunications and healthcare industries for the age of AI. Japan Cloud Services Across Nation Support Industries With NVIDIA AI SoftBank Corp. has adopted the NVIDIA Blackwell platforms to build Japan's most powerful AI supercomputers, including the world's first NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ with NVIDIA DGX B200 systems. SoftBank Corp. is using its NVIDIA AI infrastructure to accelerate a broad range of industries, including its subsidiary SB Intuitions, which is using NVIDIA AI for the research and development of high-performance Japanese-native large language models (LLMs). GMO Internet Group is launching its GMO GPU Cloud, which will be the first local cloud offering in Japan featuring full-stack NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs, the NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ Ethernet platform for AI, NVIDIA BlueField™-3 DPUs and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite. Built on Dell (NYSE:DELL) PowerEdge servers, the service is expected to come online this month to provide cloud-based AI computing for businesses in Japan. GMO GPU Cloud customers will be able to use NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to accelerate their generative AI applications running in production on the platform. Highreso is accelerating AI development in Japan with the establishment of Highreso Kagawa, a dedicated AI data center powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing. Built with NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs, the Kagawa data center is expected to begin operations next month and will provide high-performance infrastructure for Highreso's GPUSOROBAN AI Supercomputer Cloud service. A second Highreso AI data center is scheduled to come online next summer. Together, they will provide researchers and businesses across Japan with access to 1,600 NVIDIA GPUs, helping foster AI development in manufacturing, research and educational institutes. KDDI is launching AI computing infrastructure built with NVIDIA HGX™ systems to support generative AI and specialized LLM development in collaboration with its ELYZA business group. With NVIDIA software, KDDI customers can use the infrastructure to accelerate AI model training and inference, build digital twins and run simulation workloads for autonomous vehicles, robotic motion control and sensor data processing. KDDI is also planning a liquid-cooled data center that is expected to feature the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform with NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips. Rutilea, an NVIDIA Inception member based in Kyoto, is doubling the NVIDIA Hopper™ computing available in its AI cloud data center. The startup is providing more than 1,000 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs, which will be used for LLM development by customers building foundation models for animation, retail and food services, vision-based editing and data extraction. Additionally, Rutilea subsidiary AI Fukushima began operations of a new data center in Okuma, Fukushima, in September to support continued industry recovery following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. AI Fukushima, which operates the infrastructure implemented by Rutilea, aims to contribute to the revitalization of the regional economy and local development by providing cutting-edge AI computing platforms. SAKURA internet plans to expand its Koukaryoku cloud services for generative AI from 2,000 to nearly 4,000 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs. It also plans to install NVIDIA HGX B200 infrastructure with Blackwell GPUs at its Ishikari data center, which is expected to be fully powered by renewable energy by 2027. SAKURA internet intends to provide approximately 10,800 GPUs as part of its high-performance AI computing offering. SAKURA internet customers include the National Institute of Informatics (NII), a public-sector research organization. NII has established the Research and Development Center for Large Language Models and is promoting collaboration among industry, government and academia in Japan through open generative AI research and development activities, including the development of Japanese-centric medical LLMs. Japan-based driving software startup TIER IV is also using NVIDIA-accelerated SAKURA internet computing in its vision to develop intelligent vehicles with its open-source software. About NVIDIA NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is the world leader in accelerated computing. For further information, contact: Shannon McPhee NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) +1-310-920-9642 smcphee@nvidia.com Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the benefits, impact, and performance of NVIDIA's products, services, and technologies, including NVIDIA accelerated computing, NVIDIA Blackwell platforms, NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, NVIDIA DGX B200 systems, NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs, NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet platform, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, NVIDIA HGX systems, NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform, and Grace Blackwell Superchips; third parties using or adopting our products and technologies, the benefits and impact thereof, and the features, performance and availability of their offerings; Japan's companies standing to benefit tremendously from the new industrial revolution powered by AI; company employees supercharging their speed and productivity by automating work with AI agents; industrial companies of tomorrow operating dual factories " new AI factories to produce software intelligence for the products and machines their factories make today; and working with NVIDIA, Japan's cloud providers building the AI factories essential to reinvent the country's automotive, robotics, telecommunications and healthcare industries for the age of AI are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners' products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the most recent reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company's website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances. Many of the products and features described herein remain in various stages and will be offered on a when-and-if-available basis. The statements above are not intended to be, and should not be interpreted as a commitment, promise, or legal obligation, and the development, release, and timing of any features or functionalities described for our products is subject to change and remains at the sole discretion of NVIDIA. NVIDIA will have no liability for failure to deliver or delay in the delivery of any of the products, features or functions set forth herein. © 2024 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, BlueField, NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, NVIDIA HGX, NVIDIA Hopper and NVIDIA Spectrum-X are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability and specifications are subject to change without notice. A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/71f6bd4e-9ccd-41ac-b8dd-cd24b6b59ccb

Japan Cloud Leaders Build NVIDIA AI Infrastructure to Transform Industries for the Age of AI - NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

TOKYO, Nov. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA AI Summit Japan -- NVIDIA today announced that Japan cloud leaders SoftBank Corp., GMO Internet Group, Highreso, KDDI, Rutilea and SAKURA internet are building AI infrastructure with NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking and software to accelerate transformation across the nation's robotics, automotive, healthcare and telecom industries. The services from Japan's cloud providers are supported through a Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) program to supply critical compute resources across industries. The cloud providers are operating their AI data centers across the country's central, northern and western regions to support development with national and regional NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure. "Japan's companies stand to benefit tremendously from the new industrial revolution powered by AI," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "Company employees will supercharge their speed and productivity by automating work with AI agents. Industrial companies of tomorrow will operate dual factories -- new AI factories to produce software intelligence for the products and machines their factories make today. Working with NVIDIA, Japan's cloud providers are building the AI factories essential to reinvent the country's automotive, robotics, telecommunications and healthcare industries for the age of AI." Japan Cloud Services Across Nation Support Industries With NVIDIA AI SoftBank Corp. has adopted the NVIDIA Blackwell platforms to build Japan's most powerful AI supercomputers, including the world's first NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ with NVIDIA DGX B200 systems. SoftBank Corp. is using its NVIDIA AI infrastructure to accelerate a broad range of industries, including its subsidiary SB Intuitions, which is using NVIDIA AI for the research and development of high-performance Japanese-native large language models (LLMs). GMO Internet Group is launching its GMO GPU Cloud, which will be the first local cloud offering in Japan featuring full-stack NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs, the NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ Ethernet platform for AI, NVIDIA BlueField™-3 DPUs and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite. Built on Dell PowerEdge servers, the service is expected to come online this month to provide cloud-based AI computing for businesses in Japan. GMO GPU Cloud customers will be able to use NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to accelerate their generative AI applications running in production on the platform. Highreso is accelerating AI development in Japan with the establishment of Highreso Kagawa, a dedicated AI data center powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing. Built with NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs, the Kagawa data center is expected to begin operations next month and will provide high-performance infrastructure for Highreso's GPUSOROBAN AI Supercomputer Cloud service. A second Highreso AI data center is scheduled to come online next summer. Together, they will provide researchers and businesses across Japan with access to 1,600 NVIDIA GPUs, helping foster AI development in manufacturing, research and educational institutes. KDDI is launching AI computing infrastructure built with NVIDIA HGX™ systems to support generative AI and specialized LLM development in collaboration with its ELYZA business group. With NVIDIA software, KDDI customers can use the infrastructure to accelerate AI model training and inference, build digital twins and run simulation workloads for autonomous vehicles, robotic motion control and sensor data processing. KDDI is also planning a liquid-cooled data center that is expected to feature the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform with NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips. Rutilea, an NVIDIA Inception member based in Kyoto, is doubling the NVIDIA Hopper™ computing available in its AI cloud data center. The startup is providing more than 1,000 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs, which will be used for LLM development by customers building foundation models for animation, retail and food services, vision-based editing and data extraction. Additionally, Rutilea subsidiary AI Fukushima began operations of a new data center in Okuma, Fukushima, in September to support continued industry recovery following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. AI Fukushima, which operates the infrastructure implemented by Rutilea, aims to contribute to the revitalization of the regional economy and local development by providing cutting-edge AI computing platforms. SAKURA internet plans to expand its Koukaryoku cloud services for generative AI from 2,000 to nearly 4,000 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs. It also plans to install NVIDIA HGX B200 infrastructure with Blackwell GPUs at its Ishikari data center, which is expected to be fully powered by renewable energy by 2027. SAKURA internet intends to provide approximately 10,800 GPUs as part of its high-performance AI computing offering. SAKURA internet customers include the National Institute of Informatics (NII), a public-sector research organization. NII has established the Research and Development Center for Large Language Models and is promoting collaboration among industry, government and academia in Japan through open generative AI research and development activities, including the development of Japanese-centric medical LLMs. Japan-based driving software startup TIER IV is also using NVIDIA-accelerated SAKURA internet computing in its vision to develop intelligent vehicles with its open-source software. About NVIDIA NVIDIA NVDA is the world leader in accelerated computing. For further information, contact: Shannon McPhee NVIDIA Corporation +1-310-920-9642 smcphee@nvidia.com Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the benefits, impact, and performance of NVIDIA's products, services, and technologies, including NVIDIA accelerated computing, NVIDIA Blackwell platforms, NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, NVIDIA DGX B200 systems, NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs, NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet platform, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, NVIDIA HGX systems, NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform, and Grace Blackwell Superchips; third parties using or adopting our products and technologies, the benefits and impact thereof, and the features, performance and availability of their offerings; Japan's companies standing to benefit tremendously from the new industrial revolution powered by AI; company employees supercharging their speed and productivity by automating work with AI agents; industrial companies of tomorrow operating dual factories -- new AI factories to produce software intelligence for the products and machines their factories make today; and working with NVIDIA, Japan's cloud providers building the AI factories essential to reinvent the country's automotive, robotics, telecommunications and healthcare industries for the age of AI are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners' products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the most recent reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company's website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances. Many of the products and features described herein remain in various stages and will be offered on a when-and-if-available basis. The statements above are not intended to be, and should not be interpreted as a commitment, promise, or legal obligation, and the development, release, and timing of any features or functionalities described for our products is subject to change and remains at the sole discretion of NVIDIA. NVIDIA will have no liability for failure to deliver or delay in the delivery of any of the products, features or functions set forth herein. © 2024 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, BlueField, NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, NVIDIA HGX, NVIDIA Hopper and NVIDIA Spectrum-X are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability and specifications are subject to change without notice. A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/71f6bd4e-9ccd-41ac-b8dd-cd24b6b59ccb Market News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIs

NVIDIA and SoftBank Corp. Accelerate Japan's Journey to Global AI Powerhouse By Investing.com

TOKYO, Nov. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA AI Summit Japan"NVIDIA today announced a series of collaborations with SoftBank Corp. designed to accelerate Japan's sovereign AI initiatives and further its global technology leadership while also unlocking billions of dollars in AI revenue opportunities for telecommunications providers worldwide. During his keynote at NVIDIA AI Summit Japan, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced that SoftBank is building Japan's most powerful AI supercomputer using the NVIDIA Blackwell platform and has plans to use the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell platform for its next supercomputer. Additionally, NVIDIA revealed that SoftBank, using the NVIDIA AI Aerial accelerated computing platform, has successfully piloted the world's first combined AI and 5G telecom network " a breakthrough in computing that opens AI revenue streams potentially worth billions of dollars to telecom operators. NVIDIA and SoftBank also announced that, using NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, SoftBank is aiming to create an AI marketplace that can meet the demand for local, secure AI computing. This new service, which supports AI training and edge AI inference, positions SoftBank to become the AI grid for Japan, facilitating new business opportunities for the creation, distribution and use of AI services across the country's industries, consumers and enterprises. Japan has a long history of pioneering technological innovations with global impact, said Huang. With SoftBank's significant investment in NVIDIA's full-stack AI, Omniverse and 5G AI-RAN platforms, Japan is leaping into the AI industrial revolution to become a global leader, driving a new era of growth across the telecommunications, transportation, robotics and healthcare industries in ways that will greatly benefit humankind in the age of AI. Countries and regions worldwide are accelerating the adoption of AI for social and economic growth, and society is undergoing significant transformation, said Junichi Miyakawa, president and CEO of SoftBank. Through our long collaboration with NVIDIA, SoftBank is leading this transformation from the forefront. With our extremely powerful AI infrastructure and our new, distributed AI-RAN solution ~AITRAS' that reinvents 5G networks for AI, we will accelerate innovation across the country and throughout the world. SoftBank First to Receive Blackwell, Plans for Grace Blackwell SoftBank is slated to receive the world's first NVIDIA DGX™ B200 systems, which will serve as the building blocks for its new NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ supercomputer. SoftBank plans to use its Blackwell-powered DGX SuperPOD for its own generative AI development and AI-related business, as well as that of universities, research institutions and businesses throughout Japan. Upon completion, SoftBank's DGX SuperPOD is expected to be Japan's most performant to date. Featuring NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, it is also ideal for the development of large language models. In addition to its DGX SuperPOD, SoftBank plans to build another NVIDIA-accelerated supercomputer to run extremely compute-intensive workloads. Initial plans for the supercomputer are based on an NVIDIA Grace Blackwell platform design featuring NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 multi-node, liquid-cooled, rack-scale systems that combine NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with power-efficient Arm-based NVIDIA Grace™ CPUs. AI-RAN Reaches New Milestone (WA:MMD) Working closely with NVIDIA, SoftBank has achieved a technology milestone " the development of a new kind of telecommunications network that can run AI and 5G workloads at the same time, known by the industry as artificial intelligence radio access network, or AI-RAN. This new breed of infrastructure has broad ecosystem support from the telecom industry, as it offers operators the ability to transform their base stations from cost centers into AI revenue-producing assets. Through an outdoor trial conducted in the Kanagawa prefecture, SoftBank demonstrated that its NVIDIA-accelerated AI-RAN solution has achieved carrier-grade 5G performance and was able to do so while using the network's excess capacity to run AI inference workloads concurrently. Traditional telco networks are designed to handle peak loads and, on average, have used only one-third of that capacity. With the common computing capability provided by AI-RAN, it is expected that telcos now have the opportunity to monetize the remaining two-thirds capacity for AI inference services. NVIDIA and SoftBank estimate that telco operators can earn roughly $5 in AI inference revenue from every $1 of capex it invests in new AI-RAN infrastructure.(1) Taking into account its opex and capex costs, SoftBank estimates it can achieve a return of up to 219% for every AI-RAN server it adds to its infrastructure.(2) Real-World Inference Runs on AI-RAN For the trial, SoftBank used NVIDIA AI Enterprise to build real-world AI inference applications, including autonomous vehicle remote support, robotics control and multimodal retrieval-automated generation at the edge. All inference workloads were able to run optimally on SoftBank's AI-RAN network. SoftBank's fully software-defined 5G radio stack is optimized for NVIDIA's AI computing platform and includes L1 software enhanced by SoftBank based on NVIDIA Aerial™ CUDA ®-accelerated RAN libraries. SoftBank plans to incorporate NVIDIA Aerial RAN Computer-1 systems, which it estimates can use 40% less power than traditional 5G network infrastructure,(3) into its solution moving forward. NVIDIA and SoftBank partners that contributed to the trial of SoftBank's AI-RAN solution include Fujitsu and Red Hat. Matching Supply With Demand Because an AI-RAN solution needs to spin compute up or down dynamically based on demand and supply without compromising carrier-grade performance in real time, SoftBank aims to build an ecosystem that connects the demand and supply of AI technology by using NVIDIA AI Enterprise serverless application programming interfaces and its in-house developed orchestrator. This enables SoftBank to dispatch external AI inferencing jobs to an AI-RAN server when computing resources are available to deliver localized, low-latency, secure inferencing services. Shifting from single-purpose to multi-purpose AI-RAN networks can mean 5x the revenue for every dollar of capex invested, said Ronnie Vasishta, senior vice president of telecom at NVIDIA. SoftBank's live field trial marks a huge step toward AI-RAN commercialization with the validation of technology feasibility, performance and economics. SoftBank's ~AITRAS' is the first AI-RAN solution developed through a five-year collaboration with NVIDIA. It integrates and coordinates AI and RAN workloads through the SoftBank-developed orchestrator, enhancing communication efficiency by running dense cells on a single NVIDIA-accelerated GPU server, said Ryuji Wakikawa, vice president and head of the Research Institute of Advanced Technology at SoftBank. We are confident this AI-driven innovation, AITRAS, will pave the way for new business models in telecommunications, serving as a crucial factor in the transformation of mobile operators. Learn more about NVIDIA solutions for AI-RAN. About NVIDIA NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is the world leader in accelerated computing. For further information, contact: Kristin Bryson Enterprise Communications NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) +1-203-241-9190 kbryson@nvidia.com (1) Results do not guarantee actual revenue at time of implementation. (2) Based on estimates by SoftBank. (3) Based on estimates by NVIDIA and SoftBank. Results do not guarantee actual power reduction at time of implementation. Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the benefits, impact, and performance of NVIDIA's products, services, and technologies, including NVIDIA Blackwell platform, NVIDIA Grace Blackwell platform, NVIDIA AI Aerial, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, NVIDIA DGX B200 systems, NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD supercomputer, NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 multi-node, liquid-cooled, rack-scale systems, NVIDIA Grace CPUs, NVIDIA Aerial CUDA-accelerated RAN libraries, NVIDIA Aerial RAN Computer-1 systems, NVIDIA's full-stack AI, and NVIDIA Omniverse; our collaboration with SoftBank and the benefits and impact thereof; SoftBank using or adopting our products and technologies, the benefits and impact thereof, and the features, performance and availability of its offerings; with SoftBank's significant investment in NVIDIA's full-stack AI, Omniverse, and 5G AI-RAN platforms, Japan leaping into the AI industrial revolution to become a global leader, driving a new era of growth across the telecommunications, transportation, robotics and healthcare industries in ways that will greatly benefit humankind in the age of AI; countries and regions worldwide are accelerating the adoption of AI for social and economic growth, and society is undergoing significant transformation; through long collaboration with NVIDIA, SoftBank leading this transformation from the forefront; with its extremely powerful AI infrastructure and our new, distributed AI-RAN solution ~AITRAS' that reinvents 5G networks for AI, SoftBank accelerating innovation across the country and throughout the world; and AI-driven innovation, AITRAS, paving the way for new business models in telecommunications, serving as a crucial factor in the transformation of the mobile operators are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners' products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the most recent reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company's website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances. Many of the products and features described herein remain in various stages and will be offered on a when-and-if-available basis. The statements above are not intended to be, and should not be interpreted as a commitment, promise, or legal obligation, and the development, release, and timing of any features or functionalities described for our products is subject to change and remains at the sole discretion of NVIDIA. NVIDIA will have no liability for failure to deliver or delay in the delivery of any of the products, features or functions set forth herein. © 2024 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, CUDA, DGX, NVIDIA Aerial, NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD and NVIDIA Grace are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability and specifications are subject to change without notice. A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/092c9b3f-53bf-4438-93fc-49a95f614a95

Japan Cloud Leaders Build NVIDIA AI Infrastructure to Transform Industries for the Age of AI

TOKYO, Nov. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA AI Summit Japan -- NVIDIA today announced that Japan cloud leaders SoftBank Corp., GMO Internet Group, Highreso, KDDI, Rutilea and SAKURA internet are building AI infrastructure with NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking and software to accelerate transformation across the nation's robotics, automotive, healthcare and telecom industries. The services from Japan's cloud providers are supported through a (METI) program to supply critical compute resources across industries. The cloud providers are operating their AI data centers across the country's central, northern and western regions to support development with national and regional accelerated computing infrastructure. "Japan's companies stand to benefit tremendously from the new industrial revolution powered by AI," said , founder and CEO of . "Company employees will supercharge their speed and productivity by automating work with AI agents. Industrial companies of tomorrow will operate dual factories -- new AI factories to produce software intelligence for the products and machines their factories make today. Working with , Japan's cloud providers are building the AI factories essential to reinvent the country's automotive, robotics, telecommunications and healthcare industries for the age of AI." Japan Cloud Services Across Nation Support Industries With AI SoftBank Corp. has adopted the Blackwell platforms to build Japan's most powerful AI supercomputers, including the world's first DGX SuperPOD™ with DGX B200 systems. SoftBank Corp. is using its AI infrastructure to accelerate a broad range of industries, including its subsidiary SB Intuitions, which is using AI for the research and development of high-performance Japanese-native large language models (LLMs). GMO Internet Group is launching its GMO GPU Cloud, which will be the first local cloud offering in featuring full-stack H200 Tensor Core GPUs, the Spectrum-X™ Ethernet platform for AI, BlueField™-3 DPUs and the AI Enterprise software suite. Built on Dell PowerEdge servers, the service is expected to come online this month to provide cloud-based AI computing for businesses in . GMO GPU Cloud customers will be able to use AI Enterprise software to accelerate their generative AI applications running in production on the platform. Highreso is accelerating AI development in with the establishment of Highreso Kagawa, a dedicated AI data center powered by accelerated computing. Built with H200 Tensor Core GPUs, the Kagawa data center is expected to begin operations next month and will provide high-performance infrastructure for Highreso's GPUSOROBAN AI Supercomputer Cloud service. A second Highreso AI data center is scheduled to come online next summer. Together, they will provide researchers and businesses across with access to 1,600 GPUs, helping foster AI development in manufacturing, research and educational institutes. KDDI is launching AI computing infrastructure built with HGX™ systems to support generative AI and specialized LLM development in collaboration with its ELYZA business group. With software, KDDI customers can use the infrastructure to accelerate AI model training and inference, build digital twins and run simulation workloads for autonomous vehicles, robotic motion control and sensor data processing. KDDI is also planning a liquid-cooled data center that is expected to feature the GB200 NVL72 platform with GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips. Rutilea, an Inception member based in , is doubling the Hopper™ computing available in its AI cloud data center. The startup is providing more than 1,000 Hopper GPUs, which will be used for LLM development by customers building foundation models for animation, retail and food services, vision-based editing and data extraction. Additionally, Rutilea subsidiary AI Fukushima began operations of a new data center in Okuma, Fukushima, in September to support continued industry recovery following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. AI Fukushima, which operates the infrastructure implemented by Rutilea, aims to contribute to the revitalization of the regional economy and local development by providing cutting-edge AI computing platforms. SAKURA internet plans to expand its Koukaryoku cloud services for generative AI from 2,000 to nearly 4,000 Hopper GPUs. It also plans to install HGX B200 infrastructure with Blackwell GPUs at its Ishikari data center, which is expected to be fully powered by renewable energy by 2027. SAKURA internet intends to provide approximately 10,800 GPUs as part of its high-performance AI computing offering. SAKURA internet customers include the (NII), a public-sector research organization. NII has established the Research and and is promoting collaboration among industry, government and academia in through open generative AI research and development activities, including the development of Japanese-centric medical LLMs. -based driving software startup TIER IV is also using -accelerated SAKURA internet computing in its vision to develop intelligent vehicles with its open-source software. Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the benefits, impact, and performance of NVIDIA's products, services, and technologies, including accelerated computing, Blackwell platforms, DGX SuperPOD, DGX B200 systems, H200 Tensor Core GPUs, Spectrum-X Ethernet platform, BlueField-3 DPUs, AI Enterprise software, HGX systems, GB200 NVL72 platform, and Grace Blackwell Superchips; third parties using or adopting our products and technologies, the benefits and impact thereof, and the features, performance and availability of their offerings; Japan's companies standing to benefit tremendously from the new industrial revolution powered by AI; company employees supercharging their speed and productivity by automating work with AI agents; industrial companies of tomorrow operating dual factories -- new AI factories to produce software intelligence for the products and machines their factories make today; and working with , Japan's cloud providers building the AI factories essential to reinvent the country's automotive, robotics, telecommunications and healthcare industries for the age of AI are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners' products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the most recent reports files with the , or , including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the are posted on the company's website and are available from without charge. 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NVIDIA and SoftBank Corp. Accelerate Japan's Journey to Global AI Powerhouse

, (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AI Summit Japan -- today announced a series of collaborations with SoftBank Corp. designed to accelerate Japan's sovereign AI initiatives and further its global technology leadership while also unlocking billions of dollars in AI revenue opportunities for telecommunications providers worldwide. During his keynote at AI Summit Japan, founder and CEO announced that SoftBank is building Japan's most powerful AI supercomputer using the Blackwell platform and has plans to use the Grace Blackwell platform for its next supercomputer. Additionally, revealed that SoftBank, using the AI Aerial accelerated computing platform, has successfully piloted the world's first combined AI and 5G telecom network -- a breakthrough in computing that opens AI revenue streams potentially worth billions of dollars to telecom operators. and SoftBank also announced that, using AI Enterprise software, SoftBank is aiming to create an AI marketplace that can meet the demand for local, secure AI computing. This new service, which supports AI training and edge AI inference, positions SoftBank to become the AI grid for , facilitating new business opportunities for the creation, distribution and use of AI services across the country's industries, consumers and enterprises. "Japan has a long history of pioneering technological innovations with global impact," said Huang. "With SoftBank's significant investment in NVIDIA's full-stack AI, Omniverse and 5G AI-RAN platforms, is leaping into the AI industrial revolution to become a global leader, driving a new era of growth across the telecommunications, transportation, robotics and healthcare industries in ways that will greatly benefit humankind in the age of AI." "Countries and regions worldwide are accelerating the adoption of AI for social and economic growth, and society is undergoing significant transformation," said , president and CEO of SoftBank. "Through our long collaboration with , SoftBank is leading this transformation from the forefront. With our extremely powerful AI infrastructure and our new, distributed AI-RAN solution 'AITRAS' that reinvents 5G networks for AI, we will accelerate innovation across the country and throughout the world." SoftBank First to Receive Blackwell, Plans for SoftBank is slated to receive the world's first DGX™ B200 systems, which will serve as the building blocks for its new DGX SuperPOD™ supercomputer. SoftBank plans to use its Blackwell-powered DGX SuperPOD for its own generative AI development and AI-related business, as well as that of universities, research institutions and businesses throughout . Upon completion, SoftBank's DGX SuperPOD is expected to be Japan's most performant to date. Featuring AI Enterprise software and Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, it is also ideal for the development of large language models. In addition to its DGX SuperPOD, SoftBank plans to build another -accelerated supercomputer to run extremely compute-intensive workloads. Initial plans for the supercomputer are based on an Grace Blackwell platform design featuring GB200 NVL72 multi-node, liquid-cooled, rack-scale systems that combine Blackwell GPUs with power-efficient Arm-based Grace™ CPUs. AI-RAN Reaches New Milestone Working closely with , SoftBank has achieved a technology milestone -- the development of a new kind of telecommunications network that can run AI and 5G workloads at the same time, known by the industry as artificial intelligence radio access network, or AI-RAN. This new breed of infrastructure has broad ecosystem support from the telecom industry, as it offers operators the ability to transform their base stations from cost centers into AI revenue-producing assets. Through an outdoor trial conducted in the Kanagawa prefecture, SoftBank demonstrated that its -accelerated AI-RAN solution has achieved carrier-grade 5G performance and was able to do so while using the network's excess capacity to run AI inference workloads concurrently. Traditional telco networks are designed to handle peak loads and, on average, have used only one-third of that capacity. With the common computing capability provided by AI-RAN, it is expected that telcos now have the opportunity to monetize the remaining two-thirds capacity for AI inference services. and SoftBank estimate that telco operators can earn roughly in AI inference revenue from every of capex it invests in new AI-RAN infrastructure. Taking into account its opex and capex costs, SoftBank estimates it can achieve a return of up to 219% for every AI-RAN server it adds to its infrastructure. Real-World Inference Runs on AI-RAN For the trial, SoftBank used AI Enterprise to build real-world AI inference applications, including autonomous vehicle remote support, robotics control and multimodal retrieval-automated generation at the edge. All inference workloads were able to run optimally on SoftBank's AI-RAN network. SoftBank's fully software-defined 5G radio stack is optimized for NVIDIA's AI computing platform and includes L1 software enhanced by SoftBank based on Aerial™ CUDA®-accelerated RAN libraries. SoftBank plans to incorporate Aerial RAN Computer-1 systems, which it estimates can use 40% less power than traditional 5G network infrastructure, into its solution moving forward. and SoftBank partners that contributed to the trial of SoftBank's AI-RAN solution include Fujitsu and Red Hat. Matching Supply With Demand Because an AI-RAN solution needs to spin compute up or down dynamically based on demand and supply without compromising carrier-grade performance in real time, SoftBank aims to build an ecosystem that connects the demand and supply of AI technology by using AI Enterprise serverless application programming interfaces and its in-house developed orchestrator. This enables SoftBank to dispatch external AI inferencing jobs to an AI-RAN server when computing resources are available to deliver localized, low-latency, secure inferencing services. "Shifting from single-purpose to multi-purpose AI-RAN networks can mean 5x the revenue for every dollar of capex invested," said , senior vice president of telecom at . "SoftBank's live field trial marks a huge step toward AI-RAN commercialization with the validation of technology feasibility, performance and economics." "SoftBank's 'AITRAS' is the first AI-RAN solution developed through a five-year collaboration with . It integrates and coordinates AI and RAN workloads through the SoftBank-developed orchestrator, enhancing communication efficiency by running dense cells on a single -accelerated GPU server," said Ryuji Wakikawa, vice president and head of the at SoftBank. "We are confident this AI-driven innovation, AITRAS, will pave the way for new business models in telecommunications, serving as a crucial factor in the transformation of mobile operators." (1) Results do not guarantee actual revenue at time of implementation. (2) Based on estimates by SoftBank. (3) Based on estimates by and SoftBank. Results do not guarantee actual power reduction at time of implementation. Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the benefits, impact, and performance of NVIDIA's products, services, and technologies, including Blackwell platform, Grace Blackwell platform, AI Aerial, AI Enterprise software, DGX B200 systems, DGX SuperPOD supercomputer, Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, GB200 NVL72 multi-node, liquid-cooled, rack-scale systems, Grace CPUs, Aerial CUDA-accelerated RAN libraries, Aerial RAN Computer-1 systems, NVIDIA's full-stack AI, and Omniverse; our collaboration with SoftBank and the benefits and impact thereof; SoftBank using or adopting our products and technologies, the benefits and impact thereof, and the features, performance and availability of its offerings; with SoftBank's significant investment in NVIDIA's full-stack AI, Omniverse, and 5G AI-RAN platforms, leaping into the AI industrial revolution to become a global leader, driving a new era of growth across the telecommunications, transportation, robotics and healthcare industries in ways that will greatly benefit humankind in the age of AI; countries and regions worldwide are accelerating the adoption of AI for social and economic growth, and society is undergoing significant transformation; through long collaboration with , SoftBank leading this transformation from the forefront; with its extremely powerful AI infrastructure and our new, distributed AI-RAN solution 'AITRAS' that reinvents 5G networks for AI, SoftBank accelerating innovation across the country and throughout the world; and AI-driven innovation, AITRAS, paving the way for new business models in telecommunications, serving as a crucial factor in the transformation of the mobile operators are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners' products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the most recent reports files with the , or , including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the are posted on the company's website and are available from without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances. Many of the products and features described herein remain in various stages and will be offered on a when-and-if-available basis. The statements above are not intended to be, and should not be interpreted as a commitment, promise, or legal obligation, and the development, release, and timing of any features or functionalities described for our products is subject to change and remains at the sole discretion of . will have no liability for failure to deliver or delay in the delivery of any of the products, features or functions set forth herein. © 2024 . All rights reserved. , the logo, CUDA, DGX, Aerial, DGX SuperPOD and Grace are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of in the and other countries. 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NVIDIA and SoftBank Corp. Accelerate Japan's Journey to Global AI Powerhouse - NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

SoftBank Building Nation's Most Powerful AI Supercomputer With NVIDIA Blackwell for Wide Range of Sovereign AI Initiatives, Announces Plans for Grace BlackwellNVIDIA AI Aerial Enables SoftBank to Build World's First Live 5G AI-RAN, Unlocking Billions of Dollars in New Revenue Opportunities for Global Telco IndustrySoftBank Uses NVIDIA AI Enterprise to Create AI Marketplace, Meeting Nation's Demand for Local, Secure AI Compute TOKYO, Nov. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA AI Summit Japan -- NVIDIA today announced a series of collaborations with SoftBank Corp. designed to accelerate Japan's sovereign AI initiatives and further its global technology leadership while also unlocking billions of dollars in AI revenue opportunities for telecommunications providers worldwide. During his keynote at NVIDIA AI Summit Japan, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced that SoftBank is building Japan's most powerful AI supercomputer using the NVIDIA Blackwell platform and has plans to use the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell platform for its next supercomputer. Additionally, NVIDIA revealed that SoftBank, using the NVIDIA AI Aerial accelerated computing platform, has successfully piloted the world's first combined AI and 5G telecom network -- a breakthrough in computing that opens AI revenue streams potentially worth billions of dollars to telecom operators. NVIDIA and SoftBank also announced that, using NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, SoftBank is aiming to create an AI marketplace that can meet the demand for local, secure AI computing. This new service, which supports AI training and edge AI inference, positions SoftBank to become the AI grid for Japan, facilitating new business opportunities for the creation, distribution and use of AI services across the country's industries, consumers and enterprises. "Japan has a long history of pioneering technological innovations with global impact," said Huang. "With SoftBank's significant investment in NVIDIA's full-stack AI, Omniverse and 5G AI-RAN platforms, Japan is leaping into the AI industrial revolution to become a global leader, driving a new era of growth across the telecommunications, transportation, robotics and healthcare industries in ways that will greatly benefit humankind in the age of AI." "Countries and regions worldwide are accelerating the adoption of AI for social and economic growth, and society is undergoing significant transformation," said Junichi Miyakawa, president and CEO of SoftBank. "Through our long collaboration with NVIDIA, SoftBank is leading this transformation from the forefront. With our extremely powerful AI infrastructure and our new, distributed AI-RAN solution 'AITRAS' that reinvents 5G networks for AI, we will accelerate innovation across the country and throughout the world." SoftBank First to Receive Blackwell, Plans for Grace Blackwell SoftBank is slated to receive the world's first NVIDIA DGX™ B200 systems, which will serve as the building blocks for its new NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ supercomputer. SoftBank plans to use its Blackwell-powered DGX SuperPOD for its own generative AI development and AI-related business, as well as that of universities, research institutions and businesses throughout Japan. Upon completion, SoftBank's DGX SuperPOD is expected to be Japan's most performant to date. Featuring NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, it is also ideal for the development of large language models. In addition to its DGX SuperPOD, SoftBank plans to build another NVIDIA-accelerated supercomputer to run extremely compute-intensive workloads. Initial plans for the supercomputer are based on an NVIDIA Grace Blackwell platform design featuring NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 multi-node, liquid-cooled, rack-scale systems that combine NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with power-efficient Arm-based NVIDIA Grace™ CPUs. AI-RAN Reaches New Milestone Working closely with NVIDIA, SoftBank has achieved a technology milestone -- the development of a new kind of telecommunications network that can run AI and 5G workloads at the same time, known by the industry as artificial intelligence radio access network, or AI-RAN. This new breed of infrastructure has broad ecosystem support from the telecom industry, as it offers operators the ability to transform their base stations from cost centers into AI revenue-producing assets. Through an outdoor trial conducted in the Kanagawa prefecture, SoftBank demonstrated that its NVIDIA-accelerated AI-RAN solution has achieved carrier-grade 5G performance and was able to do so while using the network's excess capacity to run AI inference workloads concurrently. Traditional telco networks are designed to handle peak loads and, on average, have used only one-third of that capacity. With the common computing capability provided by AI-RAN, it is expected that telcos now have the opportunity to monetize the remaining two-thirds capacity for AI inference services. NVIDIA and SoftBank estimate that telco operators can earn roughly $5 in AI inference revenue from every $1 of capex it invests in new AI-RAN infrastructure.(1) Taking into account its opex and capex costs, SoftBank estimates it can achieve a return of up to 219% for every AI-RAN server it adds to its infrastructure.(2) Real-World Inference Runs on AI-RAN For the trial, SoftBank used NVIDIA AI Enterprise to build real-world AI inference applications, including autonomous vehicle remote support, robotics control and multimodal retrieval-automated generation at the edge. All inference workloads were able to run optimally on SoftBank's AI-RAN network. SoftBank's fully software-defined 5G radio stack is optimized for NVIDIA's AI computing platform and includes L1 software enhanced by SoftBank based on NVIDIA Aerial™ CUDA®-accelerated RAN libraries. SoftBank plans to incorporate NVIDIA Aerial RAN Computer-1 systems, which it estimates can use 40% less power than traditional 5G network infrastructure,(3) into its solution moving forward. NVIDIA and SoftBank partners that contributed to the trial of SoftBank's AI-RAN solution include Fujitsu and Red Hat. Matching Supply With Demand Because an AI-RAN solution needs to spin compute up or down dynamically based on demand and supply without compromising carrier-grade performance in real time, SoftBank aims to build an ecosystem that connects the demand and supply of AI technology by using NVIDIA AI Enterprise serverless application programming interfaces and its in-house developed orchestrator. This enables SoftBank to dispatch external AI inferencing jobs to an AI-RAN server when computing resources are available to deliver localized, low-latency, secure inferencing services. "Shifting from single-purpose to multi-purpose AI-RAN networks can mean 5x the revenue for every dollar of capex invested," said Ronnie Vasishta, senior vice president of telecom at NVIDIA. "SoftBank's live field trial marks a huge step toward AI-RAN commercialization with the validation of technology feasibility, performance and economics." "SoftBank's 'AITRAS' is the first AI-RAN solution developed through a five-year collaboration with NVIDIA. It integrates and coordinates AI and RAN workloads through the SoftBank-developed orchestrator, enhancing communication efficiency by running dense cells on a single NVIDIA-accelerated GPU server," said Ryuji Wakikawa, vice president and head of the Research Institute of Advanced Technology at SoftBank. "We are confident this AI-driven innovation, AITRAS, will pave the way for new business models in telecommunications, serving as a crucial factor in the transformation of mobile operators." Learn more about NVIDIA solutions for AI-RAN. About NVIDIA NVIDIA NVDA is the world leader in accelerated computing. For further information, contact: Kristin Bryson Enterprise Communications NVIDIA Corporation +1-203-241-9190 kbryson@nvidia.com (1) Results do not guarantee actual revenue at time of implementation. (2) Based on estimates by SoftBank. (3) Based on estimates by NVIDIA and SoftBank. Results do not guarantee actual power reduction at time of implementation. Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the benefits, impact, and performance of NVIDIA's products, services, and technologies, including NVIDIA Blackwell platform, NVIDIA Grace Blackwell platform, NVIDIA AI Aerial, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, NVIDIA DGX B200 systems, NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD supercomputer, NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 multi-node, liquid-cooled, rack-scale systems, NVIDIA Grace CPUs, NVIDIA Aerial CUDA-accelerated RAN libraries, NVIDIA Aerial RAN Computer-1 systems, NVIDIA's full-stack AI, and NVIDIA Omniverse; our collaboration with SoftBank and the benefits and impact thereof; SoftBank using or adopting our products and technologies, the benefits and impact thereof, and the features, performance and availability of its offerings; with SoftBank's significant investment in NVIDIA's full-stack AI, Omniverse, and 5G AI-RAN platforms, Japan leaping into the AI industrial revolution to become a global leader, driving a new era of growth across the telecommunications, transportation, robotics and healthcare industries in ways that will greatly benefit humankind in the age of AI; countries and regions worldwide are accelerating the adoption of AI for social and economic growth, and society is undergoing significant transformation; through long collaboration with NVIDIA, SoftBank leading this transformation from the forefront; with its extremely powerful AI infrastructure and our new, distributed AI-RAN solution 'AITRAS' that reinvents 5G networks for AI, SoftBank accelerating innovation across the country and throughout the world; and AI-driven innovation, AITRAS, paving the way for new business models in telecommunications, serving as a crucial factor in the transformation of the mobile operators are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners' products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the most recent reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company's website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances. Many of the products and features described herein remain in various stages and will be offered on a when-and-if-available basis. The statements above are not intended to be, and should not be interpreted as a commitment, promise, or legal obligation, and the development, release, and timing of any features or functionalities described for our products is subject to change and remains at the sole discretion of NVIDIA. NVIDIA will have no liability for failure to deliver or delay in the delivery of any of the products, features or functions set forth herein. © 2024 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. 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