NVIDIA Partner Network

NPN Portal

NVIDIA brings its technologies to market through a connected ecosystem of world‑class partners that design, build, and deliver solutions on NVIDIA’s accelerated computing and AI platforms. NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN) Program partners are trusted experts dedicated to accelerating innovation, empowering transformation, and unlocking faster time to value, applying deep domain knowledge and validated NVIDIA competencies to every engagement. By working with NPN partners, our customers may gain proven architectures, best practices, and end‑to‑end support that help maximize performance from data center to edge while minimizing complexity and unlocking new opportunities.

NPN Partner Types

Solution Provider

Partners that primarily operate as value-added resellers, which may include integration of NVIDIA products, solutions, and technologies directly to end customers.

Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)

Partners with a primary business model that involves using NVIDIA products and technologies in the platforms they manufacture and resell under their own brand name.

System Partner

Partners that design, develop, and manufacture systems that include NVIDIA-based technology. They may sell the systems to other types of partners.

Distributor

Partners authorized to distribute NVIDIA products to resellers of NVIDIA products, NVIDIA-based solutions, and NVIDIA technologies.

Architecture/Engineering/ Construction

Partners that provide consulting and professional services on the design, engineering, construction, and facilities management of data centers, ensuring technical alignment with NVIDIA Reference Design standards.

Data Center Partner

Partners that provide scalable, secure, high-density, rack-ready environments built to NVIDIA Reference Design standards with highly interconnected fabric for accelerated computing.

Power and Cooling

Partners that deliver engineered equipment and system-level solutions for the building’s energy generation, power distribution and conversion, cooling, telemetry and controls, and monitoring systems—essential for running data centers efficiently, safely, and reliably.

NVIDIA Cloud Partner

Partners with a primary business model focused on offering hosted software and services in a cloud or managed services model to end-user customers leveraging NVIDIA products.

Independent Software Vendor

Partners with a primary business centered on the planning, design, implementation, and project management of solutions that include NVIDIA products and technologies.

Global Systems Integrator

Partners that focus on the planning, design, implementation, and project management of solutions that include NVIDIA products and technologies.

Advanced Technology Partner

Partners that are distinguished by their technical depth in AI model development, data engineering, and industry expertise, and that utilize NVIDIA software and platforms to drive innovation across generative, agentic, physical, and/or embedded AI.

Solution Advisor

Partners that provide consulting and professional services on the design, engineering, construction, and facilities management of data centers, ensuring technical alignment with NVIDIA Reference Design standards.

Storage Partner

Partners with a primary business dedicated to designing storage solutions and joint reference architectures with NVIDIA to deliver high-performance computing and AI solutions.

Education Services

Partners that deliver NVIDIA education-based training to customers and other NPN partners through NVIDIA Certified Instructors who can host workshops to deliver official training content.

Competencies

NPN Program partners participate in competencies that help them differentiate their expertise in the marketplace and support the specific needs of customer business models and target markets. Alignment with the NPN Program competencies validates that partners are knowledgeable and have developed subject-matter expertise in key advanced technologies.

The Compute Competency focuses on partners that provide NVIDIA GPU-, DPU-, and CPU-accelerated computing platforms, both on premises and in the cloud, for enterprise IT designed to meet the needs of a wide array of use cases. These robust, secure, and energy-efficient infrastructures support develop-to-deploy implementations across all modern workloads—from accelerated computing to AI infrastructure to AI factory to data center to the edge—while driving scientific breakthroughs and game-changing innovations.

The DGX AI Compute Systems Competency focuses on partners that offer DGX infrastructure solutions, including NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™, the original blueprint for accelerated computing. Partners with this competency deliver this full-stack, turnkey AI supercomputer that combines the best of NVIDIA software, infrastructure, and expertise to power next-generation AI factories with unparalleled performance, scalability, and innovation.

Embedded Compute Competency focuses on partners that deliver the power of generative AI for robotics and embedded edge AI applications across all industries. Using the NVIDIA Jetson™ platform, these partners give customers the accelerated computing solutions and tools to quickly develop and deploy AI-powered robots, drones, intelligent video analytics (IVA) applications, and other energy-efficient autonomous machines that can perceive and understand the world.

The Networking Competency focuses on partners that provide NVIDIA accelerated networking solutions for data centers, supercomputers, AI infrastructure, and AI factories. Partners with this competency demonstrate deep knowledge of network fabric technology, tradeoffs, and components including NVIDIA NVLINK™, InfiniBand, Ethernet, and in scale-up/out/across architectures optimizing East-West, North-South, and inter–data center traffic, enabling secure, high-performance infrastructure for accelerated computing and AI.

The NVIDIA Enterprise Software Competency focuses on partners that provide production solutions for agentic AI, physical AI, AI factory operations, and virtualized professional graphics. They leverage NVIDIA software, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA Omniverse™, NVIDIA virtual GPU, and NVIDIA Run:ai to streamline AI agent development, model training and inference, AI factory operations, GPU utilization optimization, and virtualization.

The NVIDIA Technologies Competency provides partners with an overview of NVIDIA’s accelerated computing portfolio. NVIDIA’s leaps in accelerated computing and AI are at the heart of a new industrial revolution that will reshape the world’s industries, helping partners create solutions that unlock breakthroughs in every field—supporting growth, scientific discovery, and a more sustainable future.

The Visualization Competency focuses on partners that provide GPU-accelerated visual computing solutions to customers, fueling innovation from desktop to data center to cloud. Based on NVIDIA’s latest technologies for AI, ray tracing, and simulation, NVIDIA RTX PRO™ solutions enable a new generation of applications and workflows that simulate the physical world,create incredible 3D designs, and produce stunning visual effects at unprecedented speeds.

Membership Levels

The NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN) Program defines a clear path for growth and collaboration, recognizing partners for their expertise, commitment, and success in bringing NVIDIA technologies to market. Each membership level—or simply Partner, where a single level applies—reflects increasing engagement and alignment with NVIDIA’s innovation ecosystem.

Registered

The Registered partner is an entry into some of the NPN Partner types. These partners invest in NVIDIA sales and technical training and have access to product, sales, and marketing tools.

Preferred

The Preferred partner invests in a deeper relationship with NVIDIA. These partners work to achieve training, revenue, and other goals and are rewarded with additional benefits.

Elite

Elite partners represent the deepest level of partnership with NVIDIA and demonstrate the highest level of commitment to the partnership.

Specializations

NPN Specializations are designed to provide partners with a powerful way to showcase their unique capabilities and differentiated offerings to end-user customers. These invitation-only specializations, available for select partner types, validate a partner’s expertise, technical proficiency, and ability to deliver solutions powered by NVIDIA’s cutting-edge technologies.

Reference Platform NVIDIA Cloud Partner

The Reference Platform NCP is a Specialization for NVIDIA Cloud Partners with the NPN Program offers AI-accelerated services on NVIDIA full-stack infrastructure. This specialization creates a global ecosystem of partners skilled in delivering the full NVIDIA platform to customers worldwide.

AI Factory

NVIDIA AI factories accelerate time to intelligence at scale by delivering pre-engineered rack-level designs, secure AI, and an integrated software stack. AI factory specialized partners invest time and resources in training their workforces and demonstrate the skills required to deploy and manage large-scale AI clusters. This specialization recognizes partners that understand the entire infrastructure needs and the software required to enable and run AI workloads using NVIDIA’s Enterprise Reference Architectures.

Agentic AI

Partners in the Agentic AI specialization showcase expertise in designing, building, and deploying autonomous AI systems capable of reasoning, planning, and executing complex, multi-step tasks. Skills include orchestrating decision processes, integrating advanced models with enterprise workflows, and leveraging NVIDIA tools for safe and scalable agent development.

Embedded AI

Partners in Embedded AI demonstrate exceptional expertise in developing and deploying AI intelligent models on edge and embedded devices. Their core skills include embedded hardware design, camera sensors, AI model optimization, real-time inference, and a privacy-conscious design approach. They also provide customized embedded AI design services tailored to meet specific end-customer needs.

Physical AI

The Physical AI specialization recognizes partners that excel in merging AI with robotics and smart hardware. Partners are expected to demonstrate proficiency in developing embodied intelligence solutions that sense, interact, and act within real-world environments, including integrating machine learning with sensor data, robotics platforms, and hardware interfaces for reliable and safe operation.

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