SoftBank Group Corp. will be the first to build a supercomputer with chips using Nvidia Corp.’s new Blackwell design, a demonstration of the Japanese company’s ambitions to catch up on AI.

TOKYO (Reuters) -SoftBank's Japanese telecoms unit will receive the first chips using Nvidia's latest Blackwell design for its supercomputer, the California-based chip designer said, as Masayoshi Son looks to ride the artificial intelligence boom.

SoftBank's s telecom arm will build an AI supercomputer based on Nvidia's DGX B200 servers, featuring x86 processors and eight B200 GPU modules per server. SoftBank plans to adopt the Grace Blackwell platform, which combines Arm-based Grace CPUs and Blackwell AI GPUs, eventually (it's unclear when).