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Japan Orders 27,500 Nvidia Rubin Chips For A National Robot Brain

Noetra Corp will run the 140-megawatt cluster for Tokyo's METI, chasing a $133 billion robotics market by 2040.

  • The buildout adds 13,750 Vera CPUs alongside Rubin GPUs in Vera Rubin NVL72 racks.
  • Tokyo's FRONTia project funds multimodal foundation models for robots, digital twins and factories.
  • Japan aims to capture 30% of the global AI robotics market by 2040.

Why it matters: Tokyo did not buy chips out of curiosity, it bought a stake in tomorrow's factory floor.

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