Foxconn partners with Nvidia to create AI factory

Foxconn will partner with Nvidia to create 'AI factories' – powerful data processing centers to boost the production of next-generation products such as electric vehicles.

Foxconn is the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, a key partner for many famous brands such as Apple. However, Foxconn’s ambitions do not stop at electronics assembly. The company is also pursuing the fast-growing and extremely competitive electric car business. At previous “Hon Hai Tech Day” events, the company also introduced electric car prototypes.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (left) and Foxconn Chairman Young Liu.

This year, Foxconn Chairman Young Liu opened the annual event on October 18 with Nvidia CEO to introduce “a new class of data center for a wide range of applications.”

Meanwhile, Nvidia is famous for its graphics processing units (GPUs) – the backbone of modern video games and now an indispensable pillar in the race to develop generative AI.

“Together, we will help the entire industry move even faster into the new AI era,” Mr. Liu said on stage.

The “factories” the two leaders mentioned include digitizing production and inspection processes, AI-based electric vehicles, developing robotics platforms, and some language-based generative AI services.

According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Foxconn has the expertise and scale to build AI factories around the world. If successful, Foxconn customers could use these systems to provide generative AI services, using simulation to train autonomous machines such as industrial robots and self-driving cars.

The US has previously announced restrictions on the export of advanced chips to China in an attempt to block Beijing’s advances in cutting-edge technology. The ban affects Nvidia chips that are still being sold to the mainland. Nvidia is a supplier to many electronics manufacturers there, including Foxconn.

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