Contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) and Taiwanese electronic components giant Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) are among the world’s leading companies that have adopted US chip designer Nvidia Corp’s RTX Pro Servers to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning, physical AI and business workloads.
RTX Pro Servers, which are equipped with up to eight Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition graphics processing units, are available in multiple configurations from the world’s major system suppliers, Nvidia said.
Enterprise users are adopting Nvidia RTX Pro Servers to transition from general-purpose clusters to AI factory infrastructure without a complete data center overhaul, it said.
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“The age of AI has arrived — and enterprises can no longer rely on classical servers alone. They must re-architect for AI,” Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) said in a statement. “Nvidia RTX Pro is the computing platform built for this moment — running today’s [information technology] IT workloads while powering the AI agents that will transform every company and every industry.”
Leading global enterprises — including Taiwan’s TSMC, Hon Hai, Pegatron Corp (和碩), Quanta Cloud Technology Inc (雲達科技) and Wistron Corp (緯創); Germany’s Siemens SE; Japan’s Hitachi Ltd; South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group; and the US’ Walt Disney Co and Eli Lilly & Co — have adopted Nvidia RTX Pro Servers, Nvidia said.
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