Foxconn building world’s largest Nvidia superchip factory

Foxconn, the enviornment’s most attention-grabbing contract electronics manufacturer and identified as Apple’s most attention-grabbing iPhone assembler, has been benefiting from the synthetic intelligence growth given it also makes servers

Reuters

08 October, 2024, 11:20 am

Final modified: 08 October, 2024, 11:22 am

Foxconn is constructing the enviornment’s most attention-grabbing manufacturing facility making the Nvidia GB200 chip to support meet “awfully sizable” ask for the AI darling’s Blackwell platform, a senior government on the Taiwanese company mentioned on Tuesday.

Foxconn, the enviornment’s most attention-grabbing contract electronics manufacturer and identified as Apple’s most attention-grabbing iPhone assembler, has been benefiting from the synthetic intelligence growth given it also makes servers.

Benjamin Ting, Foxconn senior vice chairman for the cloud enterprise solutions industrial community, mentioned the partnership between his company and Nvidia used to be crucial.

“We’re constructing the most attention-grabbing GB200 production facility on the planet – I don’t reflect I’m in a position to claim the set apart now,” Ting mentioned on the corporate’s annual tech day in Taipei.

He mentioned every person used to be soliciting for Nvidia’s Blackwell platform.

“The ask is awfully sizable,” Ting mentioned, standing subsequent to Nvidia’s vice chairman for AI and robotics, Deepu Talla.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang regarded at Foxconn’s tech day closing 12 months. Talla mentioned Huang also wished to reduction this 12 months but used to be no longer ready to assemble it.

Foxconn Chairman Younger Liu mentioned on the match the corporate’s provide chain used to be ready for the AI revolution.

Foxconn’s manufacturing capabilities encompass the “evolved liquid cooling and warmth dissipation applied sciences wanted to enrich the GB200 server’s infrastructure,” Liu mentioned.