Foxconn builds world’s largest Nvidia superchip production facility in Mexico amid AI boom

Foxconn chairman Liu Young-way said the firm’s manufacturing capabilities include ‘technologies necessary to complement the GB200 server’s infrastructure’

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Liu Young-way, chairman of Foxconn Technology Group, said the company’s supply chain was ready for the artificial intelligence revolution. Photo: AFP

Published: 5:22pm, 8 Oct 2024Updated: 5:54pm, 8 Oct 2024

Foxconn Technology Group is building in Mexico the world’s largest manufacturing facility for bundling Nvidia’s GB200 superchips, a key component of the US firm’s next-generation Blackwell platform, senior executives at the Taiwanese company said on Tuesday.

Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and Apple’s biggest iPhone assembler, has been benefiting from the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, as it assembles servers used to process AI systems.

“We’re building the largest GB200 production facility on the planet,” said Benjamin Ting, senior vice-president at the cloud enterprise solutions business group of Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry.

Nvidia said in August that it had started shipping Blackwell samples to its partners and customers after tweaking its design, and expected several billion dollars in revenue from these chips in the fourth quarter.

Nvidia’s graphics processing units are seen inside a computer server displayed at the annual Hon Hai Tech Tech Day in Taipei, Taiwan, on October 8, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Ting said the partnership between Foxconn and Nvidia was very important and that everyone was asking for Nvidia’s Blackwell platform.

“The demand is awfully huge,” Ting said at the annual Hon Hai Tech Tech Day in Taipei, standing next to Nvidia’s vice-president for AI and robotics, Deepu Talla.