TAIPEI (Reuters) – Foxconn is building the world’s largest manufacturing facility to make Nvidia GB200 chips to meet “huge, huge” demand for AI’s darling Blackwell platform, the Taiwanese company says. a senior official said on Tuesday.
Foxconn, known as the world’s largest contract electronics maker and Apple’s largest iPhone assembler, has benefited from the artificial intelligence boom because it also makes servers.
Benjamin Ting, senior vice president of Foxconn’s Cloud Enterprise Solutions business group, said the company’s partnership with Nvidia is critical.
“We are building the largest GB200 production facility on the planet, but I don’t think we can say where it is right now,” Ting said at the company’s annual technology day in Taipei.
He said everyone wants Nvidia’s Blackwell platform.
“The demand is huge,” Ting said, standing next to Deepu Talla, Nvidia’s vice president of AI and robotics.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appeared at Foxconn’s Tech Day last year. Tara said Huang also wanted to participate this year, but was unable to do so.
Foxconn Chairman Young Liu said at the event that the company’s supply chain is ready for the AI revolution.
Foxconn’s manufacturing capabilities include “advanced liquid cooling and thermal dissipation technologies needed to complement the GB200 server infrastructure,” Liu said.
(Reporting by Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard; Editing by Christopher Cushing and Tom Hogue)
