Foxconn is building the world’s largest manufacturing facility in Mexico to assemble Nvidia’s GB200 superchips, a key component of the U.S. company’s next-generation Blackwell family of computing platforms, senior executives at the Taiwanese company said Tuesday.
Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer and known as Apple’s largest iPhone assembler, is benefiting from the artificial intelligence (AI) boom as it assembles the servers used to process AI work.
“We are building the largest GB200 manufacturing facility on the planet,” said Benjamin Ting, Foxconn’s senior vice president of the enterprise cloud solutions business group.
Nvidia said in August that it had started shipping Blackwell samples to its partners and customers after tweaking its design, and it expects to generate several billion dollars in revenue from these chips in the fourth quarter.
Ting said that the partnership between his company and Nvidia is very important and that everyone has been looking for Nvidia’s Blackwell platform.
“The demand is terribly huge,” Ting said at the company’s annual technology day in Taipei, standing next to Nvidia’s vice president of AI and robotics, Deepa Tall.
Speaking to reporters later, Foxconn chairman Young Liu said the plant was being built in Mexico and that the capacity there would be “very, very huge.” He did not clarify.
Foxconn already has a large manufacturing presence in Mexico and has invested more than $500 million (roughly Rs. 4,197 crore) in the state of Chihuahua to date.
Liu said the company’s supply chain is ready for the AI revolution, adding that its manufacturing capabilities include “advanced liquid cooling and heat dissipation technologies needed to complement the GB200 server infrastructure.”
He said the company’s outlook for the current quarter was good, but did not provide details. On Saturday, Foxconn reported its highest revenue in the third quarter thanks to strong demand for AI servers.
Foxconn’s other focus is ambitious plans to diversify away from its role building consumer electronics for Apple, hoping to use its technological know-how to offer contract manufacturing of electric vehicles and also produce vehicles using models made by the Foxtron brand.
Asked about fierce competition in the global EV market amid slowing demand, Liu said Foxconn is committed to the sector.
“It’s the right direction and we’ll continue to work hard on it,” he said, adding that with electric vehicles there is no longer an “engine barrier” in car manufacturing.
Automakers “no longer have to build the entire car themselves,” he said.
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