Foxconn is constructing in Mexico the world’s largest manufacturing facility for bundling Nvidia’s GB200 superchips, a key part of the US agency’s next-generation Blackwell household computing platform, senior executives on the Taiwanese firm mentioned on Tuesday.
Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics producer and often known as Apple’s greatest iPhone assembler, has been benefiting from the Synthetic Intelligence (AI) growth because it assembles servers used to course of AI work.
“We’re constructing the most important GB200 manufacturing facility on the planet,” mentioned Benjamin Ting, Foxconn senior vice chairman for the cloud enterprise options enterprise group.
Nvidia mentioned in August that it had began delivery Blackwell samples to its companions and clients after tweaking its design, and anticipated a number of billion {dollars} in income from these chips within the fourth quarter.
Ting mentioned the partnership between his firm and Nvidia was essential and everybody was asking for Nvidia’s Blackwell platform.
“The demand is very enormous,” Ting mentioned on the firm’s annual tech day in Taipei, standing subsequent to Nvidia’s vice chairman for AI and robotics, Deepu Talla.
Talking to reporters later, Foxconn Chairman Younger Liu mentioned the plant was being construct in Mexico, and that the capability there can be “very, very huge”. He didn’t elaborate.
Foxconn already has a big manufacturing presence in Mexico and has invested greater than $500 million (roughly Rs. 4,197 crore) up to now within the state of Chihuahua.
Liu mentioned the corporate’s provide chain was prepared for the AI revolution, including its manufacturing capabilities embrace the “superior liquid cooling and warmth dissipation applied sciences obligatory to enrich the GB200 server’s infrastructure.”
He mentioned that the corporate’s outlook within the present quarter was robust, although didn’t give particulars. On Saturday, Foxconn posted its highest-ever income for the third quarter on robust demand for AI servers.
Foxconn’s different focus is formidable plans to diversify away from its function of constructing shopper electronics for Apple, hoping to make use of its tech know-how to supply EV contract manufacturing and in addition produce automobiles utilizing fashions constructed by Foxtron model.
Requested about fierce competitors within the world electrical automobile market amid slowing demand, Liu mentioned Foxconn was dedicated to the sector.
“It’s the proper route and we are going to proceed to work onerous in direction of that,” he mentioned, including that with the EVs, the “engine barrier” now not exists in automobile manufacturing.
Automakers “need not make the entire automobile themselves anymore”, he mentioned.
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