Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) yesterday said it would start shipping new artificial intelligence (AI) server racks powered by Nvidia Corp’s latest graphics processing units (GPUs) in December.
“From November, Hon Hai is to enter mass production of servers or racks equipped with GB200 chips along with the liquid-cooling systems for those machines,” Hon Hai spokesman James Wu (巫俊毅) said on the sidelines of a news conference to launch the company’s annual technology event in Taipei.
The announcement comes after Nvidia resolved a design flaw in its new-generation Blackwell chips.
Photo: Fang Wei-chieh, Taipei Times
That would pave the way for the first shipments of GB200 server racks in December from its manufacturing sites in Taiwan, Mexico and the US, Wu said.
Shipments are expected to increase in the first quarter next year, he said.
About 80 percent of the components for the new AI servers, such as switches and cooling systems, are supplied by Hon Hai, excluding GPUs and CPUs, Wu said.
Typically, Hon Hai supplies half of the components for the hardware it assembles, he said.
Most of the new AI servers would be equipped with GB200 NVL72 chips, which has more computing power than GB200 NVL36 chips, Wu said.
GB200 NVL72 has 72 GPUs in one rack, doubling the 36 GPUs of the GB200 NVL 36, Nvidia said.
Hon Hai said it is to showcase the new server racks powered by the GB200 chip at the Hon Hai Tech event on Tuesday and Wednesday next week.
“We will showcase the mass production version of GB200 [installed in the servers], rather than just a model as displayed during the Computex trade show in June,” Wu said, adding that “coolant will be injected into the cooling systems.”
Hon Hai is also to demonstrate new electric vehicles (EV), including the Model D multiple-purpose vehicle and the Model U minivan, at the event.
The company expects to secure new orders soon from traditional automakers other than start-ups, Wu said.
In August, the company said it was in talks with two automakers in Japan, which has become one of the most important EV markets for Hon Hai.
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