ASUS Unveils Game-Changing Liquid-Cooled AI Infrastructure Powered by NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform

Delivering trusted AI with total flexibility, from rack-scale AI factories to edge and enterprise deployment

TAIPEI, March 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ASUS today unveiled its fully liquid-cooled AI infrastructure at NVIDIA GTC 2026 (Booth# 421), delivering a comprehensive, end-to-end solution powered by the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform. Under the theme Trusted AI, Total Flexibility, this customizable framework — from rack-scale AI Factories, desktop AI supercomputing, Edge AI to Enterprise AI solutions — enables enterprises and cloud providers to build high-performance, energy-efficient large-scale AI clusters with unmatched efficiency and dramatically reduced PUE and TCO.

As a provider of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 and NVIDIA HGX B300 systems, the flagship ASUS offering is the ASUS AI POD built on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform — a liquid-cooled, rack-scale powerhouse designed for massive AI workloads. Through strategic partnerships with leading cooling and component providers, ASUS offers diverse cooling modalities, tailored thermal solutions, and redundancy to meet any enterprise requirement. Proven by global client successes, ASUS provides expert consultation, a broad portfolio of AI and storage solutions, seamless infrastructure deployment, application integration, and ongoing services — combining scalability, and sustainability to drive business value and intelligence.

From infrastructure to implementation: The ASUS AI Factory in action

At the forefront is the flagship XA VR721-E3 built on NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, a 100% liquid-cooled rack-scale system. This offers a TDP of up to 227kW (MaxP) or 187kW (MaxQ), delivers up to 10X higher performance per watt, and is purpose-built for trillion-parameter models and delivering massive AI performance for large-scale AI factories. Partnering with Vertiv, a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, Schneider Electric and other leading providers, ASUS delivers a full-stack power and cooling infrastructure designed for zero-throttle performance from standard deployments to advanced liquid cooling, ensuring redundancy for each specific needs.

Addressing rigorous data-center demands, ASUS also introduces its latest server series built on NVIDIA HGX Rubin NVL8 systems, featuring eight NVIDIA Rubin GPUs connected via sixth-generation NVIDIA NVLink with integrated 800G bandwidth per GPU. To facilitate a seamless and cost-effective transition to liquid cooling, ASUS offers two distinct solutions: the XA NR1I-E12L, an innovative hybrid-cooled option; and the XA NR1I-E12LR, a 100% liquid-cooled system. The hybrid-cooled XA NR1I-E12L specifically combines direct-to-chip (D2C) liquid cooling for the NVIDIA HGX Rubin NVL8 baseboard with air cooling for the dual Intel^® Xeon^® 6 processors.

The portfolio is further strengthened by high-performance scalable servers like the XA NB3I-E12 built on NVIDIA HGX B300 systems to ensure a solution for every demanding AI workload, the ESC8000A-E13X based on NVIDIA MGX integrated with NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNICs for extreme GPU to GPU connectivity and ESC8000A-E13P accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition or NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, delivering breakthrough performance for demanding data processing, AI, video, and visual computing workloads in a power efficient design.

The tangible impact of the complete ASUS AI Factory concept is already demonstrated through several successful customer deployments, where ASUS ESC8000 series powered a production-line digital twin built on  NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and integrated with NVIDIA's customizable multi-camera tracking workflow, enabling remote simulation and significantly reducing deployment risks, managing the entire process for seamless, low-disruption deployment and maximizes value from day one.

To support these powerful systems and democratize AI development, ASUS also has established a robust data ecosystem by partnering with NVIDIA-Certified storage providers — including IBM, DDN, WEKA and VAST Data — to deliver scalable, resilient solutions for memory-intensive AI. A full spectrum of storage solutions across block storage-VS320D-RS12, JBOD-VS320D-RS12J, object storage-OJ340A-RS60, and software-defined systems — ensuring flexibility from edge to cloud, and from enterprise applications to AI and HPC workloads.

Realizing physical AI: Full-stack edge AI supercomputing from development to deployment

As the domain expert in full-stack edge AI, ASUS establishes a complete ecosystem for physical AI, delivering the critical compute power required from initial development to final deployment. The journey begins at the developer's desk with ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3, a deskside supercomputer powered by the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Ultra platform. Featuring NVIDIA NVLink-C2C interconnects and 748GB of coherent unified memory, it handles the heavy lifting of training massive models. Alongside it, the ultrasmall ASUS Ascent GX10 offers agile petaflop-scale performance powered by NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchip, ideal for rapid model iteration and scalable edge setups.

This development prowess seamlessly transitions to the PE3000N, a ruggedized inference engine powered by NVIDIA Jetson Thor. Delivering a staggering 2,070 TFLOPS, the PE3000N provides the real-time compute needed for sensor fusion and autonomous navigation. Together, these systems form a unified workflow where open models such as NVIDIA Cosmos and vision AI libraries from Metropolis can effectively perceive, reason, and act in the physical world.

Secure and scalable agentic AI development

To further enhance these capabilities, ASUS Ascent GX10 and ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 empower agentic AI development with NVIDIA NemoClaw. This integration establishes an agent-ready platform for developers to build safe, long-running autonomous agents locally. By leveraging isolated sandbox environments, governed access control, and private on-device inference, ensuring safe and scalable agent workflows for the most demanding enterprise AI applications.

Enterprise AI: ASUS AI Hub with real-time business intelligence

To accelerate enterprise AI, ASUS presents the ASUS AI Hub, a turnkey on-premises AI platform optimized with ESC8000-series servers and powered by open-source LLMs such as NVIDIA Nemotron, and Gemma, enabling enterprises to build custom AI assistants, implement RAG-enhanced document intelligence, and maintain full data sovereignty for security and compliance.

Proven internally across over 10,000 employees with peak loads exceeding 600 requests per hour, >80% OCR accuracy, and >30% efficiency gains, the platform features domain-specific modules for diverse applications — including the newly-developed ASUS agentic internal business-intelligence platform — that allow senior leaders to instantly access critical insights on costs, sales, gross margins, factory operations, and other key metrics through simple natural-language Q&A, transforming complex data into immediate, actionable executive decision-making power.

ASUS and NVIDIA are also working together on NVIDIA NemoClaw — an open source stack that simplifies running OpenClaw always-on assistants, more safely, with a single command. It installs the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime—a secure environment for running autonomous agents, and open source models like NVIDIA Nemotron.

Green computing and sustainability at the core

Sustainability is a foundational pillar of the ASUS design philosophy, with green computing innovations integrated across both hardware and software to minimize TCO and environmental impact. On the hardware level, ASUS servers feature Thermal Radar 2.0, which uses up to 56 sensors to intelligently optimize fan performance, cutting power consumption by up to 36% and saving approximately $29,000 annually in a 1,000-node cluster. This commitment extends to software with the ASUS Control Center (ACC) Data Center Edition, a unified management platform that enhances security and includes automated carbon emissions tracking, providing enterprises with the tools needed to achieve their critical ESG goals.

ASUS, the AI supercomputing domain expert, provides comprehensive solutions and services, from consultation and deployment to user training and seamless integration via OpenAI-compatible APIs. As enterprises navigate the AI era, ASUS flexibly offers a cost-effective, secure, powerful and sustainable pathway to innovation and intelligent management.

AVAILABILITY & PRICING

ASUS servers are available worldwide. However, the availability of certain other ASUS products is subject to local regulatory requirements. For specific product availability and offerings in your region, please contact your local ASUS representative.

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ASUS Unveils Game-Changing Liquid-Cooled AI Infrastructure Powered by NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform

MANILA, Philippines, June 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Vantage Foundation has mobilised local employees to support humanitarian relief efforts following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck offshore Sarangani in the southern Philippines on 8 June 2026.

According to figures reported by the Philippine Office of Civil Defense and cited by the Associated Press on 12 June, the earthquake left 46 people dead and 38 missing, injured at least 688 people, displaced more than 45,000 residents, and damaged over 12,600 homes across affected communities. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology confirmed that the earthquake occurred at 7:37 am at a depth of 33 kilometres.

In response to the disaster, Vantage Foundation mobilised local employees to support relief activities in General Santos City and surrounding affected communities. Working alongside local partners and community organisations, Vantage representatives helped prepare and deliver emergency supplies directly to families affected by the earthquake.

Based on publicly available information reviewed at the time of publication, Vantage Foundation's response involved direct participation by local employees, alongside financial and logistical support for affected communities. Team members travelled to General Santos City, Alabel and Malapatan to deliver essential supplies and assist relief efforts on the ground.

"Our priority is to help affected families access practical assistance during this deeply challenging period," said Alex Samson, Country Manager for The Philippines representing Vantage Foundation. "Our local colleagues are present in the affected communities, helping to deliver essential supplies and support families facing the immediate consequences of the earthquake. We believe meaningful humanitarian action requires not only resources, but also direct engagement with the communities we serve."

The Mindanao earthquake response marks the latest chapter in Vantage Foundation's continuing commitment to humanitarian assistance and community development.

Since its establishment in the United Kingdom in 2023, the Foundation has supported the Starlight Child Care Project in Sydney, Australia, community food assistance in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the #TradeForHope women's empowerment initiative in Indonesia, and joint emergency relief following the Tai Po Level 5 fire in Hong Kong in 2025.

Across these initiatives, Vantage Foundation has sought to work closely with local communities and partner organisations to address immediate needs while contributing to longer-term social impact. The Foundation's continued involvement in humanitarian relief, community welfare, and empowerment programmes reflects a sustained approach to social responsibility, with each initiative building on its commitment to creating meaningful and lasting positive change.

As relief efforts continue in Mindanao, Vantage Foundation remains focused on supporting local recovery and helping affected communities access essential assistance. Further updates on the supplies distributed, communities reached and overall impact of the initiative will be shared as information becomes available.

For updates on the relief effort and Vantage Foundation's wider community initiatives, please visit https://www.vantage.foundation/ 

About Vantage Foundation

Vantage Foundation is an independent charitable organization launched at the McLaren Technology Centre in the UK in 2023. The foundation has partnered with organisations worldwide, including Grab Indonesia, the iREDE Foundation in Nigeria, Teach for Malaysia, and Instituto Claret in Brazil, to drive impactful social initiatives.

For more information, please visit www.vantage.foundation

 

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Vantage Foundation Provides Swift Humanitarian Relief Following Mindanao Earthquake in the Philippines

Vantage Foundation Provides Swift Humanitarian Relief Following Mindanao Earthquake in the Philippines