NVIDIA’s Thor Meets Archer 🔨🏹

Archer is on target to be one of the trailblazers in aviation-grade AI tech, not just in the AAM sector, but across aviation more broadly. That ambition took a concrete step forward recently as the company announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to integrate its IGX Thor platform into Archer’s next-generation avionics and flight systems.

To accomplish this, Archer is aiming 🏹 at 3 core areas:

• Enhancing Pilot Safety & Predictive Awareness: Leveraging NVIDIA’s high-throughput edge computing to sense the environment, while processing flight-path data in realtime, giving pilots earlier, clearer and more actionable insight. 
• Seamless Airspace Integration: Developing AI systems that help bring current airspace management systems into the 21st century, allowing aircraft to safely integrate into today’s complex airspace, including improved routing logic and dynamic traffic-aware flight planning.
• Autonomy-Ready Flight Controls: Merging NVIDIA’s Blackwell-based platform (IGX Thor) with Archer’s quiver of cutting-edge avionics suite and control software to create a framework of semi-autonomous and even fully-autonomous flight.

Beyond performance gains, NVIDIA’s IGX Thor brings aviation-relevant advantages in functional safety, determinism, and certification-ready architecture, all of which are critical for scaling advanced flight control and autonomy systems. For Archer, this partnership isn’t just about more computing power, it’s about laying the groundwork for certifiable AI that can evolve from pilot-assist features today to higher levels of autonomy as regulations and airspace systems mature and the industry accepts it.

“CES has always been a launchpad for technologies that reshape industries, so we’re proud to announce our AI collaboration with NVIDIA here. NVIDIA’s AI compute capabilities and software stack give us the foundation to accelerate toward safer, smarter aircraft systems and modernize how aviation interfaces with the world’s airspace.” – Adam Goldstein, Archer’s Founder and CEO (December 9, 2025)

“NVIDIA IGX Thor, which will be available later this month, extends robotics to the industrial edge, offering high-performance AI computing with enterprise software support and functional safety. Archer is using IGX Thor to bring AI to aviation, advancing critical capabilities in aircraft safety, airspace integration and autonomy-ready systems.” – NVIDIA press release (01/06/2026)

Why AI Matters in eVTOL

Advanced air mobility is transforming aviation, and AI is rapidly becoming a cornerstone of this shift. Unlike traditional aircraft, eVTOLs operate in densely populated urban airspace, often at low altitudes and close to other aircraft, obstacles, and changing weather conditions. In this environment, real-time data processing and predictive decision-making are not luxuries anymore, they are now seen as essential for safety.

AI enables several critical capabilities for eVTOLs:

• Pilot safety and predictive awareness
  • Modern AI systems can continuously process data from multiple sensors: radar, lidar, cameras, and GPS to provide pilots with early alerts about potential hazards, optimal flight paths, and environmental changes. This predictive awareness reduces human error and allows for faster, more informed decisions in dynamic conditions.
• Autonomy and assistive flight controls
  • AI lays the groundwork for semi-autonomous and fully autonomous flight. Even at early levels, AI can assist with navigation, stability, and collision avoidance, allowing pilots to focus on higher-level tasks. Over time, these systems may evolve toward higher levels of autonomy, potentially enabling urban air taxis to operate safely without a pilot onboard.
• Airspace integration and traffic management
  • Urban air mobility demands aircraft that can safely integrate into complex airspace alongside traditional aviation. AI systems help eVTOLs understand and respond to traffic patterns in real time, optimize routing, and comply with evolving airspace regulations. This dynamic awareness is critical for scaling operations in crowded urban environments.

Archer Aviation

• Based in San Jose, California
• NYSE: ACHR
• eVTOL and hybrid VTOL manufacturer
  • Archer Midnight eVTOL
    • 1 pilot + 4 passengers
    • up to 150 mph
  • Hybrid eVTOL (Archer Defense partnership with Anduril)
• United Airlines, top customer with up to $1.5B order for hundreds of Archer eVTOLs
• Collaborates with Stellantis on implementing advanced manufacturing techniques into aerospace
• Manufactures electric powertrains for drones/UAS such as for Anduril’s Omen platform

AI: The Next Frontier

Autonomy is the new frontier in eVTOL

Many eVTOL players have focused on important qualities of aircraft design: rotors, batteries, noise, range. But the next big frontier is autonomous flight or high-automation flight operations. That requires far more processing power, sensors, real-time decision-making, which are (at the present time) more akin to robotics or self-driving cars than traditional aircraft. While eVTOLs are far from traditional aircraft, this announcement reflects this shift. eVTOLs will be likely the first type of vehicles to enter into existence with such a degree of “autonomy” already incorporated into their ecosystem and user experience.

NVIDIA made a video titled: “America’s Next Great Leap: The New Age of AI” highlighting the capabilities their AI products a bring across various industries, including aviation and aerospace.

Watch it below:

NVIDIA

• Headquartered in Santa Clara, California
• Founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem
• NASDAQ: NVDA
• CEO: Jensen Huang
• Revenue: 60.92 billion USD (2024)
• Products:
  • Chips & Hardware Platforms
    • NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture (B100, B200, GB200, etc.) – Next-gen GPU architecture for AI, data centers, and HPC workloads
    • NVIDIA Thor – AI superchip designed for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and edge computing (successor to Drive Orin).
    • NVIDIA Grace CPU / Grace Hopper Superchip – ARM-based CPU and combined CPU-GPU platform for data centers.
    • NVIDIA RTX GPUs – Consumer and professional GPUs for gaming, AI, and visualization (e.g., RTX 5090, RTX A6000
    • NVIDIA Jetson – Edge AI and robotics modules for embedded computing.
  • Software & Services
    • NVIDIA CUDA – Parallel computing platform and API for GPU acceleration
    • NVIDIA AI Enterprise – End-to-end AI software suite for training and deploying AI on NVIDIA hardware
    • NVIDIA Omniverse – Platform for 3D simulation, collaboration, and digital twins
    • NVIDIA DGX Cloud – Cloud service offering access to NVIDIA AI supercomputers
    • NVIDIA DRIVE – Autonomous vehicle computing and software ecosystem.

The hardware that pushes the limits of AI computing, just like the hardware pushing the limits of eVTOL flight, needs to be powerful, efficient and durable. NVIDIA has created a GPU an ecosystem that will benefit many end users in the same fields that the Archer Midnight will play a key role (medical, air-taxi, tourism, military, industrial, etc).

NVIDIA Blackwell GPU

The NVIDIA Blackwell GPU is the most powerful graphics processor ever created, delivering up to 20 petaFLOPS of compute on a single chip. Its architecture packs an immense amount of processing capability by combining advanced GPU cores, high-speed memory, and next-generation interconnects. By integrating features such as optimized transformer engines and energy-efficient compute units, Blackwell enables extremely fast AI training and inference, handling large-scale workloads more efficiently than previous generations.

Blackwell AI GPU

• Largest GPU ever built
  • 208 billion transistors
  • 2.5x number of transistors compared to it’s predecessor (NVIDIA
    Hopper GPU)
• Highest compute ever recorded on a single chip (20 petaFLOPS)

 The graph below shows “Throughput” (Tokens Per Second, or TPS) against “TPS for 1 User”, demonstrating that the GB300 can achieve a 50x increase in AI factory output for AI reasoning. 

NVIDIA Thor

NVIDIA’s Blackwell-based platform (IGX Thor) is designed for high-throughput AI-inference at the edge, with high reliability and safety targets. For example, in a parallel announcement for robotics applications, Jetson AGX Thor achieved 7.5 times the AI compute of it’s predecessor and 3.5 times the energy efficiency. While the aircraft environment differs, the compute demands (sensor fusion, perception, mission logic, health monitoring) are rather similar.

Below is a video providing a brief overview of the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit:

Spatial Intelligence

NVIDIA classified the evolution of AI into 4 stages of AI:

• #1) Perception AI
• #2) Generative AI
• #3) Agentive AI
• #4) Physical AI

NVIDIA Cosmos: A World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI (watch below):

NVIDIA’s video on Digital Twins and the NVIDIA Omniverse (watch below):

For a very interesting deep dive on the future of AI integrated across practically every platform that affects our lives, please watch NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang explain all these in an information packed hour and a half session at the 2025 CES in Las Vegas.

NVIDIA Live with CEO Jensen Huang (watch below):

Hawthorne Airport

Archer Aviation will integrate NVIDIA’s IGX Thor at their newly acquired Hawthorne Airport facility under a master ground lease for $126 million.

In a post on X, NVIDIA Robotics stated:

“We’re excited about Archer’s plan to integrate NVIDIA IGX Thor at their Hawthorne Airport facility, supporting the proposed LA air taxi network. Learn more about the collaboration” – NVIDIA Robotics via a post on X

Hawthorne Municipal Airport (KHHR)

• 80 acres (32 ha)
• 4,884 ft × 100 ft (1,489 m × 30 m) concrete runway
• Archer Aviation acquired master ground lease for the airport in 2025 for $126 million
• 190,000 sq ft of terminal, office and hangar facilities
• Tenants:
  • Jet Center Los Angeles (FBO)
  • Skyryse

“This is an important milestone as we look to build out the future of air taxis right here in LA. We are helping our great cities rethink and redefine transportation as we prepare for the next phase of modernization and growth in our country.” – Adam Goldstein, Archer’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer (December 9, 2025)

Vertiports and Venues

Planned vertiports in the LA area include:

• Hawthorne Municipal Airport
• Los Angeles International Airport
• University of Southern California, LA Convention Center, LA28 Headquarters
• Orange County (Clay Lacy Aviation)
• Santa Monica (Atlantic Aviation)
• Hollywood Burbank (Atlantic Aviation)
• Long Beach (Kilroy Realty)
• Van Nuys (Signature Aviation)
• Woodland Hills (LA Rams)
• SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park in Inglewood (LA Rams)

Certification-grade autonomy: the barrier is high

What Archer emphasises is that this is not “just autonomy for demo flights,” but autonomy that must meet functional safety standards suitable for aviation (and defense) platforms. While in automotive you may talk Level 4/5 autonomy, in aviation you need extremely high reliability given the consequences. Thus choosing a partner like NVIDIA gives Archer a more credible path toward meeting these certification hurdles.

Palantir and NVIDIA, and What it Means for Archer

NVIDIA and Palantir are expanding their collaboration to bring NVIDIA’s Blackwell platform into Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), strengthening the AI foundation used by partners such as Archer Aviation. With up to 20 petaFLOPS of compute on a single chip, make Blackwell a solid choice for Palantir. The integration is aimed at speeding up how complex data is transformed into deployable AI models, enabling more advanced reasoning and decision-making systems. By running these capabilities on NVIDIA’s AI factory infrastructure, companies like Archer can develop, test, and scale AI applications more efficiently across their operations.

Palantir Technologies

• Based in Denver, Colorado.
• Other offices across America, including in Palo Alto, California.
• Focused on Software and Big Data Analytics, Civilian and Military/Intelligence products.
• Works with Stellantis and Airbus on data utilization in manufacturing, and other operations.
• Collaborated with Stellantis since May 25, 2022, using Palantir’s Foundry to further increase the manufacturing efficiency across all of the 14 brands at Stellantis. Production speed, vehicle quality, supply chain performance, sales, and scale marketing being some of the key areas for improvement.
•  Worked with Airbus since 2015. Palantir Foundry improved efficiency in Airbus’ manufacturing of its A350 aircraft. Within the same year Airbus increased the delivery speed by 33%. In 2017 Palantir and Airbus created Skywise, which is a data analytics provider.
• Archer Aviation plans to use Palantir’s Foundry and Palantir AIP (Artificial Intelligence Platform) to increase productivity at Archer’s San Jose, California and Covington, Georgia plants.

“Palantir and NVIDIA share a vision: to put AI into action, turning enterprise data into decision intelligence. By combining Palantir’s powerful AI-driven platform with NVIDIA CUDA-X accelerated computing and Nemotron open AI models, we’re creating a next-generation engine to fuel AI-specialized applications and agents that run the world’s most complex industrial and operational pipelines.” – Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA (October 28, 2025)

“Palantir is focused on deploying AI that delivers immediate, asymmetric value to our customers. We are proud to partner with NVIDIA to fuse our AI-driven decision intelligence systems with the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure.” – Alex Karp, cofounder and CEO of Palantir Technologies (October 28, 2025)

“While the aviation industry has an unmatched level of safety, much of the legacy technology supporting the industry has only incrementally advanced. AI and software present an inflection point that will shape the future of aviation. We’re proud to be partnering with Dr. Karp and the entire Palantir team to build the AI backbone for the next-generation of aviation.” – Adam Goldstein, Founder and CEO of Archer Aviation (March 13, 2025)

“Palantir’s partnership with Archer is redefining the future of flight, making it not only more efficient but also more accessible. By integrating Palantir’s advanced AI capabilities with Archer’s innovative approach to aircraft manufacturing and operations, we are setting the stage for a transformative leap in efficiency, safety and sustainability.” – Alex Karp, Palantir Co-founder and CEO (March 13, 2025)

NVIDIA Blackwell: Stack Your Chips Texas Hold’em Style

NVIDIA has made a serious bet on the future of manufacturing in the US, and has selected two Texas metropolises (Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston), for its Blackwell chip factories.

“The engines of the world’s AI infrastructure are being built in the United States for the first time. Adding American manufacturing helps us better meet the incredible and growing demand for AI chips and supercomputers, strengthens our supply chain and boosts our resiliency.” – Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA (April 14, 2025)

“Texas is where the future of innovation is building. I congratulate NVIDIA on their Texas-sized investment in Houston and Dallas in support of their first-ever all-American-made AI supercomputers. Texas leads the nation in semiconductor manufacturing and advancements in technology. As demand for technologies powered by artificial intelligence continues to grow, we will work with industry leaders from around the globe to accelerate production, ensure supply chain resilience, and lead the American resurgence in advanced manufacturing from Texas.”  – Texas Governor Greg Abbott (April 15, 2025)

These 3 Texas factories (two in Fort Worth operated by Winstron, and one in Houston operated by Foxconn) are perfectly located with equal access to both sides of the United States.

Houston

Foxconn’s Advanced NVIDIA Factory

OpenUSD (Universal Scene Description) is an open-source framework and industry standard developed by Pixar Animation Studios for creating and exchanging 3D content. While on the surface it can be underestimated as a mere file format, it enables interoperable workflows across tools and teams, supporting advanced use cases such as digital twins and AI-driven 3D environments, and is promoted by industry leaders like NVIDIA through the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD).

Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD)

•  Established in 2023 by:
  • Pixar
  • Adobe
  • Apple
  • Autodesk
  • NVIDIA
  • Joint Development Foundation (JDF) of the Linux Foundation
• Stated goals to:
  • “promote the standardization, development, evolution, and growth of Pixar’s Universal Scene Description technology“
• OpenUSD
  • Developed by Pixar
  • Released as an open source in 2016
  • Uses:
    • Architecture
    • Design
    • CAD / Rendering
    • Robotics (Robot Simulation)
    • Autonomous Vehicle Simulation
    • Industrial Facility Digital Twins
    • Visual Effects
  • OpenUSD is incorporated by NVIDIA as the “foundational core” of its NVIDIA Omniverse™ libraries

Below is a video from NVIDIA explaining some of the important uses of OpenUSD (watch below):

Rev Lebaredian, NVIDIA’s VP of Omniverse and Simulation Technology: How Digital Twins and Real-Time Simulation Are Powering the Physical AI Revolution

One of the first robot manufacturers to implement 3D, Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD)-based digital twins was Foxconn Fii, which allows them to drag and drop equipment into the digital twins of the robots responsible for making products at Foxconn’s factories.

“Together with American’s manufacturing leaders, we’re building physical AI, Omniverse digital twins and collaborative robots that will drive productivity, resilience and competitiveness across the U.S. industrial base.” – Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA

NVIDIA created a video titled “The Age of U.S. Reindustrialization is Here” explaining how Foxconn will use Omniverse to generate digital twins for training its robots used in manufacturing:

Fairbanks Logistics Park

• Located in Houston, Texas
• Building completed in 2023
• Purchased by Foxconn for $142.1 million
• Future NVIDIA supercomputer factory, owned and operated by Foxconn
• Four-building, 1 million-square-foot, Class A industrial facility
• Located on an 86.3-acre industrial park
•  $450 million investment from Foxconn planned
  • 600 direct jobs
  • 814 indirect jobs
  • $920 million economic impact
• Building 1
  • 258,204 square ft
  • 61 dock doors
  • 2 grade-level doors
• Building 2
  • 244,128 square ft
  • 50 dock-high doors
  • 4 grade-level doors
• Building 3
  • 287,470 square ft
  • 68 dock doors
  • 2 grade-level doors
• Building 4
  • 221,719 square ft
  • 47 dock doors
  • 2 grade-level doors

“This full-park acquisition represents a strategic decision by the buyer to establish a centralized footprint in Houston’s most sought-after industrial submarket. Fairbanks Logistics Park offers the scale, efficiency and connectivity needed to support long-term growth and operational goals.” – Joshua Brown, Senior Managing Director 

George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston (IAH)

Houston is also home to George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), which will house vertiports for United Airlines’ fleet of Archer Midnights.

Fort Worth

Alliance Texas

• 27,000-acre master-planned development in North Texas (near Fort Worth) created by Hillwood
• Two Locations for NVIDIA factories (operated by Wistron)”
  • 15200 Heritage Parkway (35 Eagle Business Park)
  • 14601 Mobility Way (Alliance Westport 14)
• Notable tenants:
  • Walmart
  • Southwire
  • Winstron (in progress)
• Alliance Global Logistics Hub
  • 9,600 acres 
  • $834.6 million in trade in 2024
  • BNSF Railway’s Alliance Intermodal Rail Hub
    • 500 acre multifaceted rail facility
    • Largest rail intermodal facility in North America,
  • Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport
    • 2 runways
• AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone
  • The AllianceTexas Flight Test Center

“Wistron looked at sites all over the country. In the end, the company decided that Fort Worth is the place to be. The future of manufacturing is going to be built right here in Fort Worth.” – Robert Allen, president and CEO of the Fort Worth Economic Development Partnership

BNSF Railway’s Alliance Intermodal Rail Hub

Alliance Texas also is home to the BNSF Railway’s Alliance Intermodal Rail Hub, which allows for cheap and efficient shipping of goods from the two Winstron facilities, as well as supplies to these plants.

The AllianceTexas Flight Test Center (part of AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone)

The AllianceTexas Flight Test Center (part of AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone)

• 80+ acres surrounding farmland in North Texas
• 3 landing zones
• 1 observation tower
• Ample shop space

Flight Test Center tour (video below):

AAMTEX and Unmanned Experts at the AllianceTexas Flight Test Center (see video below):

Covington Contender: Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport

What’s also interesting is that Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport (AFW) was one of the top 3 finalists (along with Tucson, Arizona) as a location for Archer Aviation’s “ARC” megafactory before eventually losing out to Covington, Georgia. While Fort Worth didn’t get Archer’s “ARC” plant, they’ll be making NVIDIA supercomputers that will help Archer expand its business. Who knows what else in store for the Dallas-Fort Worth Area with the EIP taking shape in 2026.

Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport (AFW)

• World’s first purposely-built industrial airport
• Second-largest airport facility in North Texas
• Owned by City of Fort Worth
• Managed by Alliance Air Services (subsidiary of Perot-owned Hillwood Development)
• Majority cargo operations:
  • Amazon Air
  • FedEx Express
  • FedEx Feeder
    • Empire Airlines
    • Baron Airlines
• Aviation operations (2022-2023 figures)
  • 61% general aviation
  • 18% air carrier
  • 11% air taxi
  • 10% military

Covington, Georgia and “ARC”

The construction of “ARC“, the roughly 400,000 square foot eVTOL aircraft manufacturing facility located on an 100 acre property in Covington, Georgia was recently completed in December 2024. It began construction in March 2, 2023.

Archer plans to produce around 650 eVTOL aircraft per year by 2030 at the “ARC” plant, but it can be expanded to double the size (800,000 square feet) increasing the manufacturing capability to 2,300 eVTOL aircraft per year.

GKN’s Additive Manufacturing Centre Fort Worth, Texas

GKN, which will supply Archer with key airframe components during ramp up, makes these components at their Papendrecht, The Netherlands facility. This is also the same location where Archer gets their low voltage Electrical Wiring Interconnection Systems (EWIS). However, in the North Texas city of Fort Worth, GKN moved their US Additive Manufacturing Centre from their previous location in the city to a larger 100,000 square foot facility. Additionally, they will relocated their equipment from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility in Tennessee to this new location. The Additive Manufacturing Centre located in Fort Worth will be involved in R&D for building large-scale titanium aerostructures using laser metal deposition with wire (LMD-w) additive manufacturing technology. If Archer, or our other friend Anduril will need such large-scale aerostructures made by GKN for their aircraft, then it can be sent by rail from the BNSF Railway’s Alliance Intermodal Rail Hub which is 20 miles away, to Covington, Dayton, or even Los Angeles.

Additive Manufacturing Centre Fort Worth, Texas

• 100,000-square-foot facility
• R&D facility responsible for laser metal deposition with wire (LMD-w) additive manufacturing technology for large-scale titanium aerostructures
• in 2023, transferred GKN’s equipment from Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility in Tennessee to Fort Worth
• GKN’s fourth Global Technology Center after locations in UK, Netherlands, and Sweden
• Supports up to 100 personnel

“Fort Worth is proud to welcome GKN Aerospace and excited by the cutting-edge R&D that it will bring to the region. This center of excellence builds on a strong cluster of Fort Worth-based firms who are innovating the future of aerospace and transportation manufacturing, and we look forward to the partnership that we are building with GKN Aerospace.” – Robert Sturns, director of economic development for the city of Fort Worth, said in a statement (21st of November 2022)

“We are very excited to bring our additive technology research to Fort Worth. With proximity to many of our major customers in Texas and across the US, this is the right place for GKN Aerospace. Along with partnership with local government, we look forward to expanding our titanium additive manufacturing capabilities and pushing the boundaries of this technology for our customers and the aerospace industry.” – Shawn Black, GKN Aerospace’s President of Defense (21st of November 2022)

GKN Aerospace

• Founded in 1759
• Headquartered in Redditch, England
• British multinational automotive and aerospace components business
• CEO: Nigel Stein
• Chairman: Michael Turner, CBE
• Supplies low voltage Electrical Wiring Interconnection Systems (EWIS) for the Archer Midnight (from The Netherlands)
• Will manufacture in the UK and supply of key airframe components for Archer Midnight during ramp phase
• 2 Divisions:
  • GKN Aerospace
    • Aerostructures
    • EWIS Products
    • Engine Products
    • Propulsion Systems
  • GKN Automotive
    • Driveshafts
    • Freight Services
    • Autostructures
    • Cylinder Liners, Sheepbridge Stokes
    • Power Management
    • PowerTrain Systems & Services
    • Wheels and Structures
    • Stromag
  • GKN Powder Metallurgy
    • Sinter Metals
    • Hoeganaes
    • Hydrogen Storage
• Global technology centres
  • UK global technology centre in Bristol, England
  • Trollhättan, Sweden
  • Hoogeveen, the Netherlands
  • Additive Manufacturing Centre Fort Worth, US
• Other UK Locations (besides the UK global technology centre in Bristol)
  • Cowes (Isle of Wight)
    • Falcon Yard and Osborne sites
    • R&D, manufacture, and repair of high performance structures and systems
    • Employs almost 1,000 at Cowes facility
    • +100 additional jobs from partnership with Anduril
    • Largest employer on the island
  • Birmingham
    • Head office
  • Bristol – Western Approach
    • Manufacturer of composite wing spars and Fixed Trailing Edge assemblies
  • Filton
    •  Largest advanced aerostructures facility of GKN
  • Luton
    • R&D and manufacturing of electro-thermal ice protection, flight deck windows and fast jet canopies 

Conclusion

The AI revolution within Advanced Air Mobility is just getting started. Archer and NVIDIA laid the groundwork (literally) across the US, from California, to Texas and Georgia.

As Archer advances toward certification and scaled operations, NVIDIA’s IGX Thor may prove to be more than a performance upgrade, among many, it could be a foundational enabler and textbook example for how AI-driven aircraft operate safely in shared airspace.

Stay tuned to more information from eVTOL buzz ✈️ about Archer Aviation and NVIDIA, as they change the trajectory of aviation with new technology, as shown by Archer’s bow and NVIDIA’s Thor hammer forging an alliance within AAM.

More Info:

Official Press Release (Archer Aviation): click here

NVIDIA Releases New Physical AI Models as Global Partners Unveil Next-Generation Robots: click here

NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture Technical Brief: click here

NVIDIA IGX Thor Robotics Processor Brings Real-Time Physical AI to the Industrial and Medical Edge: click here

Why Archer chose Palantir to integrate AI from the ground up into the sky: click here

Archer Aviation’s Q2 2025: Midnight Manufacturing Takes Off, Olympic Gold in Sight: click here

Palantir and NVIDIA Team Up to Operationalize AI — Turning Enterprise Data Into Dynamic Decision Intelligence: click here

NVIDIA to Manufacture American-Made AI Supercomputers in US for First Time: click here

Jet Center Los Angeles: click here

Foxconn Buys 1 MSF Industrial Campus for $142M: click here

Foxconn’s investment in Houston grows after these Transwestern leases: click here

Governor Abbott Welcomes NVIDIA Investment In Texas: click here

Newmark Completes Sale of One Million-Square-Foot Industrial Park in Houston, Texas: click here

TRUMP EFFECT: NVIDIA Leads American-Made Chips Boom: click here

Dalfen Buys 1 MSF Houston Asset: click here

Sources: Fort Worth to be site of major AI supercomputer plants: click here

Nvidia partner Wistron confirms Fort Worth supercomputer plants, $750 million-plus investment: click here

Intermodal Information Hub, BNSF Information Resource Guide: click here

UNT and COMSovereign to Collaborate on 5G Edge-Centric Research Platform for Advanced Air Mobility and More: click here

Archer Aviation sees future for electric air taxis built in Covington: click here

Advanced Air Mobility of Texas: click here

NVIDIA and US Manufacturing and Robotics Leaders Drive America’s Reindustrialization With Physical AI: click here

NVIDIA: What Is OpenUSD?: click here

Pixar open-sources its Universal Scene Description: click here

 Universal Scene Description (Official website): click here

Wistron Accelerates U.S. Operations with Physical AI Strategy: click here

Wistron Advances Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing with AI and NVIDIA Omniverse: click here

GKN Aerospace to create additive manufacturing center of excellence in Texas: click here