Siemens, NVIDIA to build industrial AI operating system

Siemens and NVIDIA have announced an expansion of their strategic partnership to develop industrial and physical AI solutions, thereby bringing artificial intelligence to every industry and industrial workflow. To support development, NVIDIA will provide AI infrastructure, simulation libraries, models, frameworks and blueprints, while Siemens will provide hundreds of industrial AI experts, along with leading hardware and software.

“By combining NVIDIA’s leadership in accelerated computing and AI platforms with Siemens’ leading hardware, software, industrial AI and data, 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,” said Roland Buscha, President and CEO of Siemens AG.

“Our partnership with Siemens fuses the world’s leading industrial software with NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platform — empowering industries to simulate complex systems in software, then seamlessly automate and operate them in the physical world,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.

Siemens and NVIDIA will work together to build AI-accelerated industrial solutions across the full lifecycle of products and production, enabling faster innovation, continuous optimisation and more resilient, sustainable manufacturing. The companies aim to build the world’s first fully AI-driven, adaptive manufacturing sites globally, starting with the Siemens Electronics Factory in Erlangen, Germany, as the first blueprint.

Using an ‘AI Brain’ — powered by software-defined automation and industrial operations software, combined with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and NVIDIA AI infrastructure, factories can continuously analyse their digital twins, test improvements virtually and turn validated insights into operational changes on the shopfloor. This results in faster, more reliable decision-making from design to deployment — raising productivity while reducing commissioning time and risk.

With the partnership expansion, 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 optimisation.

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 optimisation 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 optimisation to boost engineering productivity while meeting manufacturability requirements. Together, these capabilities will advance AI-native engines for design, verification manufacturability and digital-twin approaches to shorten design cycles and improve yield.

Image caption: Jensen Huang (right), founder and CEO of NVIDIA, and Roland Busch (left), President and CEO of Siemens AG. Image credit: Siemens.