Foxconn to build Nvidia Superchip facility in Mexico, executives say
Foxconn is building the world’s largest manufacturing facility in Mexico to bundle Nvidia’s GB200 superchips, a key part of the U.S. Blackwell next-generation computing platform, senior executives at the Taiwanese company said Tuesday.
Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and known as Apple’s largest iPhone assembler, has taken advantage of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom in assembling servers used to process AI work.
“We are building the largest GB200 manufacturing facility in the world,” said Benjamin Ting, Foxconn’s senior vice president for the cloud enterprise solutions business group.
Nvidia said in August that it had started shipping Blackwell samples to its partners and customers after tweaking the design, and expected several billion dollars in revenue from these chips in the fourth quarter.
Ting said the partnership between his company and Nvidia was very important and everyone was asking for Nvidia’s Blackwell platform.
“The demand is extremely high,” Ting said at the company’s annual technology day in Taipei, alongside Nvidia’s vice president for AI and robotics, Deepu Talla.
Foxconn Chairman Young Liu later told reporters that the factory is being built in Mexico and that capacity there would be “very, very enormous.” He didn’t work it out.
Foxconn already has a large manufacturing presence in Mexico and has invested over $500 million (approximately Rs. 4,197 crore) in the state of Chihuahua so far.
Liu said the company’s supply chain was ready for the AI revolution, adding that manufacturing capabilities include the “advanced liquid cooling and heat dissipation technologies needed to complement the GB200 server infrastructure.”
He said the company’s outlook for the current quarter is strong, but did not provide details. On Saturday, Foxconn posted its highest-ever third-quarter revenue on strong demand for AI servers.
Foxconn’s other focus is on ambitious plans to diversify away from its role in building consumer electronics for Apple, hoping to use its technical know-how to offer EV contract manufacturing and also produce vehicles with models marketed by the Foxtron brand have been built.
Asked about the fierce competition in the global electric vehicle market amid declining demand, Liu said Foxconn is committed to the sector.
“It is the right direction and we will continue to work hard on that,” he said, adding that with EVs, the “engine barrier” no longer exists in car production.
Automakers “no longer have to make the entire car themselves,” he said.
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