TAIPEI: Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) announced its plans to build an advanced computing centre in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, with the NVIDIA Blackwell platform at its core.
The collaboration signals a deepening commitment by the world’s largest electronics manufacturing service provider and market leader to make AI servers, alongside its world-class partner, to drive intelligent ecosystems covering AI, electric vehicles, smart factories, robotics, smart cities and other fields.
Following the COMPUTEX 2024 event, NVIDIA Founder and CEO, Jensen Huang noted that NVIDIA and Foxconn have worked closely together on various product development, and the proof of the cooperation is clear.
This is especially proven with the Blackwell product line-up, where Foxconn has excellent vertical integration capabilities and is a vital partner for the GB200.
Meanwhile, Foxconn Chairman and CEO, Young Liu announced that Foxconn will join hands with NVIDIA to build an advanced computing centre in Kaohsiung with the NVIDIA Blackwell platform at its core.
The cutting-edge computing centre consists of a total of 64 racks and 4,608 GPUs, is slated for completion by 2026.
NVIDIA’s powerful AI technology will drive Foxconn’s three smart platforms, namely smart manufacturing, smart EV and smart city. Both companies will continue to deepen cooperation in AI, electric vehicles, smart factories, robots, smart cities and other fields, and demonstrate the strong competitiveness brought by AI through Foxconn’s huge manufacturing scale.
Huang said, “A new era of computing has dawned, fuelled by surging global demand for generative AI data centres. Leveraging on NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac robotics platforms, Foxconn is harnessing cutting-edge AI and digital twin technologies to construct their advanced computing centre in Kaohsiung.”
The two companies will utilise NVIDIA Omniverse and create digital twins to introduce platforms for smart manufacturing, smart electric vehicles, and smart cities.
For smart manufacturing platforms, image recognition technology, combined with the group’s autonomous mobile robots (AMR), will lead to changes for optimal capacity utilisation.
The production line planning will encompass the existing manufacturing of AI servers and EV assembly plants.
Toward that goal, the new Qiaotou automotive manufacturing facilities of Foxtron, a Foxconn subsidiary, will become one of the Group’s benchmark AI factories. Currently under construction, the site will utilise digital twin connected to cloud technologies and achieve collaboration between virtual and physical production lines.
Digital real-time monitoring will ensure the manufacturing excellence of an award-winning electric bus, which is currently seeing orders outpacing output capacity.
Going forward, the two companies’ collaborative efforts in the EV ADAS platform will be applied to future EV models designed by Foxconn.
Presently, Foxconn is negotiating projects with traditional European and American automakers. Moreover, based on NVIDIA’s new generation of chips, Foxconn and NVIDIA jointly plan a ‘cabin-driving-in-one’ smart travel solution, creating a third living space.
