TOKYO, July 16 (Reuters) – Nvidia said on Thursday it was partnering with Japanese companies including Fanuc and \u200cYaskawa Electric to advance the development of robotics \u200cand AI. <\/p>\n
“With AI, robots will become smart, easily adaptable and accessible,” Nvidia \u200bCEO Jensen Huang said at a media event in Tokyo. <\/p>\n
On Wednesday Huang attended an event held by gaming firm Sega Sammy in the Akihabara electronics district and ate dinner \u200cat a Japanese “izakaya” \u2060pub. <\/p>\n
Huang has achieved rock star status in Taiwan and his appearances have also generated interest \u2060from onlookers in Japan, which boasts leading companies in the chipmaking supply chain. <\/p>\n
“I think he’s the most influential man on \u200bEarth,” said \u200bChang Hui-Yu, a 57-year-old \u200bTaiwanese tourist, speaking outside the \u200cSega event. <\/p>\n
“It was my first time seeing Jensen Huang in person and I was so excited,” said Brian Yang, 37, who is Taiwanese and lives in Tokyo. <\/p>\n
Huang was pictured last night with executives of leading Japanese supply \u200cchain firms including the CEOs of \u200bchipmaker Kioxia and equipment maker Tokyo \u200bElectron. <\/p>\n
Investors are weighing \u200bthe strength of the AI investment cycle, with \u200cchipmaking equipment maker ASML on \u200bWednesday raising \u200bits sales forecast and pledging capacity expansion. <\/p>\n
TSMC, the world’s leading contract chipmaker, is expected to post a fifth \u200bconsecutive quarter of \u200crecord earnings on Thursday due to the AI \u200bboom. <\/p>\n
(Reporting by Sam Nussey, Irene Wang and Anton \u200bBridge; Editing by Sonali Paul) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO, July 16 (Reuters) – Nvidia said on Thursday it was partnering with Japanese companies including Fanuc and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,5645,23805,33,1879,38524,52,38482],"class_list":["post-58993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-japan","tag-japanese-companies","tag-jensen-huang","tag-nihon","tag-nvidia","tag-sega-sammy","tag-tokyo","tag-yaskawa-electric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}