Foxconn Technology Group is building in Mexico the world’s largest manufacturing facility for bundling Nvidia’s GB200 superchips, a key component of the US firm’s next-generation Blackwell platform, senior executives at the Taiwanese company said on Tuesday.
Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and Apple’s biggest iPhone assembler, has been benefiting from the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, as it assembles servers used to process AI systems.
“We’re building the largest GB200 production facility on the planet,” said Benjamin Ting, senior vice-president at the cloud enterprise solutions business group of Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry.
Nvidia said in August that it had started shipping Blackwell samples to its partners and customers after tweaking its design, and expected several billion dollars in revenue from these chips in the fourth quarter.
Ting said the partnership between Foxconn and Nvidia was very important and that everyone was asking for Nvidia’s Blackwell platform.
“The demand is awfully huge,” Ting said at the annual Hon Hai Tech Tech Day in Taipei, standing next to Nvidia’s vice-president for AI and robotics, Deepu Talla.
