TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Foxconn announced on Tuesday (June 4) that it is joining forces with Nvidia to build an advanced computing center within two years.
While attending the first day of Computex Taipei, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) visited the booth for the Foxconn Technology Group's AI-focused subsidiary Ingrasys and met with Foxconn Chair Young Liu (劉揚偉). While meeting with Huang, Liu announced their two firms would build an advanced computing center using Nvidia's super chip GB200 servers to drive Foxconn's smart platforms.
Liu said the advanced computing center will be in Kaohsiung Software Park with the Nvidia Blackwell platform at its core. According to Liu, the “cutting-edge computing center,” will contain 64 racks and 4,608 graphics processing units (GPUs).
Both firms plan on increasing their 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.”
Foxconn quoted Huang saying, “A new era of computing has dawned, fueled by surging global demand for generative AI data centers. Foxconn stands at the forefront as a leading supplier of Nvidia computing and a trailblazer in the application of generative AI in manufacturing and robotics." He added that by leveraging the Nvidia Omniverse and Isaac robotics platforms, Foxconn will utilize AI and digital twin technologies to build the advanced computing center in Kaohsiung.”
The two tech giants will use Nvidia Omniverse and digital twins to develop Foxconn's three smart platforms: Smart Manufacturing, Smart EV, and Smart City. For smart manufacturing platforms, image recognition technology will be combined with Foxconn's autonomous mobile robots to generate changes for optimal capacity utilization.
The automotive manufacturing facilities of the Foxconn subsidiary Foxtron in Kaohsiung’s Qiaotou Science Park will be designated as one of Foxconn's “benchmark AI factories.” The facility will use a digital twin tied to cloud technologies to link virtual and physical production lines as the factory manufactures an electric bus with demand currently outpacing supply.
As for smart electric vehicles, Foxconn said a collaboration with Nvidia on an EV advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) platform will be applied to future Foxconn EV models. At the same time, Foxconn is negotiating projects with traditional European and American car manufacturers.
In addition, with Nvidia's new generation of chips, Foxconn and Nvidia plan on jointly developing a "cabin-driving-in-one" smart travel solution that generates a “third living space.”