Hitachi Wins "Best Software Partner Award" at "NVIDIA Partner Network Award 2026"
Hitachi, Ltd. received the "Best Software Partner Award" at the "NVIDIA Partner Network Award 2026" for its significant contribution to the expansion and education of AI utilization across various industries.
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Hitachi, Ltd. (hereinafter "Hitachi") has received the "Best Software Partner Award" at the "NVIDIA Partner Network Award 2026" hosted by NVIDIA Corporation (hereinafter "NVIDIA").
The "NVIDIA Partner Network Award" is presented to NVIDIA partners who have made a significant impact on the popularization of the NVIDIA accelerated computing platform by contributing to the expansion and education of AI utilization across a wide range of industries. The award was announced and the trophy was presented at "GTC 2026," a global AI conference held in San Jose, California, starting March 16.
This award recognizes Hitachi's series of initiatives in promoting collaboration with NVIDIA utilizing physical AI, where Hitachi positioned its own frontlines as the first customer, or "Customer Zero." The practical know-how and technologies gained through this verification process have been successfully translated into value creation for customers.
Hitachi takes this award as a solid result of its efforts to date and will continue to lead in solving challenges faced by customers and society. By combining its unique strengths encompassing IT, OT, and products with the domain knowledge and know-how deepened through practices across a wide range of areas within the Hitachi Group, Hitachi will connect the evolution of AI technology to social implementation.
Furthermore, while further strengthening cooperation with partners including NVIDIA, Hitachi will deploy "HMAX by Hitachi" (hereinafter "HMAX") and contribute to the realization of a harmonized society where the environment, well-being, and economic growth are in harmony.
## Initiatives with NVIDIA
Hitachi began its collaboration with NVIDIA in March 2024, announcing that it would accelerate social innovation by combining deep domain knowledge cultivated in mission-critical fields with NVIDIA's AI solution portfolio*1.
Also, in June 2025, Hitachi became the first Japanese company to participate in NVIDIA's global system integrator program*2, developing roadmaps for use cases and business solutions utilizing advanced technologies such as high-speed data processing and AI agents, responding to customers' diversifying AI transformation needs.
Furthermore, in September 2025, Hitachi built a global AI Factory based on NVIDIA AI's reference architecture*3. This powerful, integrated AI computing infrastructure enables the execution of applications and AI workflows developed on NVIDIA's comprehensive AI platform, supporting the deployment of HMAX, a suite of next-generation solutions innovating social infrastructure with AI.
Through collaboration to date, solutions that achieve both DX and GX have been born, such as HMAX for Rail*4, which started by utilizing NVIDIA's AI infrastructure, Hitachi Vantara's AI solution portfolio "Hitachi iQ," and the liquid-cooled AI data center that supports Hitachi's common generative AI platform.
The "NVIDIA Partner Network Award" is presented to NVIDIA partners who have made a significant impact on the popularization of the NVIDIA accelerated computing platform by contributing to the expansion and education of AI utilization across a wide range of industries. The award was announced and the trophy was presented at "GTC 2026," a global AI conference held in San Jose, California, starting March 16.
This award recognizes Hitachi's series of initiatives in promoting collaboration with NVIDIA utilizing physical AI, where Hitachi positioned its own frontlines as the first customer, or "Customer Zero." The practical know-how and technologies gained through this verification process have been successfully translated into value creation for customers.
Hitachi takes this award as a solid result of its efforts to date and will continue to lead in solving challenges faced by customers and society. By combining its unique strengths encompassing IT, OT, and products with the domain knowledge and know-how deepened through practices across a wide range of areas within the Hitachi Group, Hitachi will connect the evolution of AI technology to social implementation.
Furthermore, while further strengthening cooperation with partners including NVIDIA, Hitachi will deploy "HMAX by Hitachi" (hereinafter "HMAX") and contribute to the realization of a harmonized society where the environment, well-being, and economic growth are in harmony.
## Initiatives with NVIDIA
Hitachi began its collaboration with NVIDIA in March 2024, announcing that it would accelerate social innovation by combining deep domain knowledge cultivated in mission-critical fields with NVIDIA's AI solution portfolio*1.
Also, in June 2025, Hitachi became the first Japanese company to participate in NVIDIA's global system integrator program*2, developing roadmaps for use cases and business solutions utilizing advanced technologies such as high-speed data processing and AI agents, responding to customers' diversifying AI transformation needs.
Furthermore, in September 2025, Hitachi built a global AI Factory based on NVIDIA AI's reference architecture*3. This powerful, integrated AI computing infrastructure enables the execution of applications and AI workflows developed on NVIDIA's comprehensive AI platform, supporting the deployment of HMAX, a suite of next-generation solutions innovating social infrastructure with AI.
Through collaboration to date, solutions that achieve both DX and GX have been born, such as HMAX for Rail*4, which started by utilizing NVIDIA's AI infrastructure, Hitachi Vantara's AI solution portfolio "Hitachi iQ," and the liquid-cooled AI data center that supports Hitachi's common generative AI platform.