Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) yesterday announced that it plans to team up with Nvidia Corp to build an advanced computing center at the Kaohsiung Software Park (高雄軟體園區), with the US chip giant’s GB200 flagship chips at its core.
The computing center is to house artificial intelligence (AI) servers based on Nvidia’s latest AI chip — consisting of a total of 64 racks and 4,608 graphics processing units (GPUs), Hon Hai said.
Construction of the center is slated for completion by 2026, it added.
Photo: Fang Wei-chieh, Taipei Times
Through the latest collaboration, Hon Hai is banking on Nvidia’s AI technology to drive the development of its three smart platforms — smart manufacturing, smart electric vehicles (EV) and smart cities, Hon Hai said in a statement.
“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,” said the firm, which is Apple Inc’s largest contract manufacturer and is known as Foxconn Technology Group (富士康科技集團) internationally.
Hon Hai did not elaborate on how much it plans to invest in the center.
The company’s announcement came as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) and Hon Hai chairman Young Liu (劉揚偉) met yesterday at a booth at Computex Taipei.
The booth belongs to Ingrasys Technology Inc (鴻佰科技), a Hon Hai subsidiary that makes Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72, a next-generation AI liquid-cooled rack solution and other Nvidia server products.
By leveraging Nvidia’s Omniverse and Isaac robotics platforms, coupled with Hon Hai’s image recognition technology and autonomous mobile robots, the company hopes to optimize its capacity utilization of AI server and EV production lines in Kaohsiung, it said.
In addition, Foxtron Vehicle Technologies Co’s (鴻華先進) new automotive manufacturing facilities in Kaohsiung’s Ciaotou District (橋頭) would become one of the group’s benchmark AI factories, it added.
Foxtron is an EV joint venture between Hon Hai and Yulon Motor Co (裕隆汽車). The new Ciaotou plant, which is under construction, is to use digital twin technology to achieve greater collaboration between virtual and physical production lines, as Foxtron is seeing electric bus orders outpace its current capacity, it said.
Upon the completion of the advanced computing center, the two companies will work with partners in the ecosystem to make generative AI applications a reality and help turn Kaohsiung into a smart city that would feature not just smart public transportation management, but also next-generation digital governance and medical health infused with generative AI technology, Hon Hai said.
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