By Yimou Lee
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Foxconn is constructing in Mexico the world’s largest manufacturing facility for bundling Nvidia (NASDAQ:)’s GB200 superchips, a key part of the U.S. 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 (NASDAQ:)’s largest iPhone assembler, has been benefiting from the unreal intelligence increase because it assembles servers used to course of AI work.
“We’re building the largest GB200 production facility on the planet,” mentioned Benjamin Ting, Foxconn senior vice chairman for the cloud enterprise options enterprise group.
A Mexican authorities supply mentioned the plant can be constructed within the metropolis of Guadalajara.
Nvidia mentioned in August it had began transport Blackwell samples to its companions and prospects 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 awfully huge,” Ting mentioned on the firm’s annual tech day in Taipei, standing subsequent to Nvidia’s vice chairman for AI and robotics, Deepu Talla.
Chatting with reporters later, Foxconn Chairman Younger Liu mentioned the plant was being inbuilt Mexico, and the capability there can be “very, very enormous.” He didn’t elaborate.
Foxconn already has a big manufacturing presence in Mexico and has invested greater than $500 million to this point within the state of Chihuahua.
Liu mentioned the corporate’s provide chain was prepared for the AI revolution, including its manufacturing capabilities embody the “advanced liquid cooling and heat dissipation technologies necessary to complement the GB200 server’s infrastructure.”
He mentioned the corporate’s outlook within the present quarter was robust, although he 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 bold plans to diversify away from its function of constructing client electronics for Apple, hoping to make use of its tech know-how to supply electrical automobile contract manufacturing and likewise produce autos utilizing fashions constructed by the Foxtron model.
Requested about fierce competitors within the world electrical automobile market amid slowing demand, Liu mentioned Foxconn was dedicated to the sector.
“It is the right direction and we will continue to work hard towards that,” he mentioned, including that with the EVs, the “engine barrier” now not exists in automotive manufacturing.
Automakers “don’t need to make the whole car themselves anymore,” he mentioned.
