Foxconn joins hands with Nvidia to create AI factories

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (left) and Foxconn Chairman Young Liu (Photo: Reuters)

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

This year, Mr. 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.”

Nvidia is best known 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 faster into the new AI era,” Liu said on stage.

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

According to Mr. Huang, Foxconn has the expertise and scale to build AI factories around the world. If successful, Foxconn’s customers can use these systems to provide generative AI services, using simulation to train automated machines such as industrial robots and self-driving cars.

The US announced a day earlier that it would tighten restrictions on the export of advanced chips to China in an effort to curb 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.

(According to Reuters)

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