Giants expand their strategic partnership to close the gap between idea and reality.

NVIDIA and Siemens have announced a major expansion of
their strategic partnership to bring AI into real-world operations.

The collaborative endeavor aims to develop industrial and
physical AI solutions that will bring AI-driven innovation to every industry and
industrial workflow and accelerate both companies’ internal operations.

To support development, NVIDIA will provide AI infrastructure,
simulation libraries, models, frameworks, and blueprints, while Siemens will commit
hundreds of industrial AI experts and leading hardware and software.

“Generative AI and accelerated computing have ignited a
new industrial revolution, transforming digital twins from passive simulations into
the active intelligence of the physical world,” said Mr. Jensen Huang, Founder and
CEO of NVIDIA. “Our partnership with Siemens fuses the world’s leading industrial
software with NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platform to close the gap between idea and
reality – empowering industries to simulate complex systems in software, then seamlessly
automate and operate them in the physical world.”

“By combining NVIDIA’s leadership in accelerated computing
and AI platforms with Siemens’ leading hardware, software, industrial AI, and data,”
said Mr. Roland Busch, President and CEO of Siemens AG, “we’re empowering customers
to develop products faster with the most comprehensive digital twins, adapt production
in real time, and accelerate technologies from chips to AI factories.”

Accelerating entire
industrial lifecycle

Siemens and NVIDIA will work together to build AI-accelerated
industrial solutions across the full lifecycle of products and production, enabling
faster innovation, continuous optimization, and more resilient, sustainable manufacturing.

The two giants aim to build the world’s first fully AI-driven,
adaptive manufacturing sites globally, starting in 2026 with the Siemens Electronics
Factory in Erlangen, Germany, as the initial blueprint.

An “AI Brain,” built on software-defined automation and
industrial operations software, combined with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and NVIDIA
AI infrastructure factories can continuously analyze their digital twins, test improvements
virtually, and turn validated insights into operational changes on the shop floor.

This results in faster, more reliable decision-making from
design to deployment – raising productivity while reducing commissioning time and
risk. Several major global companies are already evaluating early capabilities from
the partnership, including Foxconn, HD Hyundai, the KION Group, and PepsiCo. The
technologies are expected to scale across key verticals in the years to come.

As part of the collaboration, Siemens will complete GPU
acceleration across its entire simulation portfolio and expand support for NVIDIA
CUDA-X libraries and AI physics models, enabling customers to run larger, more accurate
simulations faster. Building on that foundation, the companies will advance towards
generative simulation by using NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo and open models to provide autonomous
digital twins that deliver real-time engineering design and autonomous optimization.

By applying industrial AI operating logic to semiconductors
and AI factories, Siemens and NVIDIA will accelerate the engines of the AI revolution.
Starting with semiconductor design and building on NVIDIA’s extensive use of Siemens’
tools, Siemens will integrate NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries, PhysicsNeMo, and GPU acceleration
across its EDA portfolio, with a focus on verification, layout, and process optimization,
to target 2-10x speed-ups in key workflows.

The partnership will also add AI-assisted capabilities
such as layout guidance, debug support, and circuit optimization to boost engineering
productivity while meeting strict manufacturability requirements. Together, these
capabilities will advance AI-native engines for design, verification, manufacturability,
and digital-twin approaches to shorten design cycles, improve yield, and deliver
more reliable outcomes.

Designing the next
generation of AI factories

Siemens and NVIDIA will also jointly develop a repeatable
blueprint for next generation AI factories – accelerating the industrial AI revolution
and providing the high-performance foundation for their AI-accelerated industrial
portfolios.

This blueprint will balance the next-generation high-density
computing demands for power, cooling and automation while ensuring technologies
are well positioned for both speed and efficiency – optimizing the full lifecycle,
from planning and design to deployment and operations.

The combined effort bridges NVIDIA’s AI platform roadmap,
AI infrastructure expertise, partner ecosystem and the accelerated power of NVIDIA
Omniverse library-based simulation with Siemens’ strengths in power infrastructure,
electrification, grid integration, automation, and digital twins. Together, the
companies aim to accelerate deployment, increase energy efficiency, and improve
resilience for industrial-scale AI infrastructure worldwide.

Optimizing operations
through shared innovation

Siemens and NVIDIA aim to accelerate each other’s operations
and portfolio by implementing technologies on their own systems before scaling them
across industries. NVIDIA will assess Siemens offerings to streamline and optimize
its own operations and offerings, and Siemens will assess its own workloads and
collaborate with NVIDIA to accelerate them and integrate AI into Siemens’ customer
portfolio.

By accelerating one another and improving their own systems,
Siemens and NVIDIA are creating concrete proof points of value and scalability for
customers.

-Linh San