- SoftBank will be the first to build a supercomputer on such chips - It will be a demonstration of SoftBank's ambitions in the AI market - The new supercomputer will be the most powerful ever for Japan - It is expected to be based on the Nvidia DGX B200 - The next version will use Nvidia Grace Blackwell - Until early 2019, Japan's SoftBank held a 4% stake in Nvidia - Today, such a stake could be worth about $178 billion - Production issues slowed down the release of Blackwell - SoftBank likely secured a “favorable place in line” - SoftBank also uses Nvidia's cellular networking solutions - Its telecom division will launch its AI based on them - The result will be an AI network covering all of Japan