Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) yesterday said it is building a large artificial intelligence (AI) manufacturing facility in Mexico to produce servers based on Nvidia Corp’s GB200 chips.
The company would utilize as much capacity as possible to match strong market demand for AI servers, Hon Hai chairman Young Liu (劉揚偉) said at “Hon Hai Tech Day” at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center.
Last week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) told Bloomberg News that demand for the company’s new Blackwell chips has been “insane.”
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GB200 is the first Blackwell chip.
“We are building a massive factory in Mexico. That is a very special factory with tremendous capacity,” Liu said. “Jensen’s perspective about supply/demand will determine our capacity utilization plan.”
The plant in Guadalajara would be the world’s largest manufacturing facility for GB200 servers, Hon Hai said.
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The company uses Nvidia’s AI tool, Omniverse, to build models and simulate performance to obtain accurate results before the servers’ physical deployment, it said.
Hon Hai, which produces 40 percent of the world’s servers, would “be the first” to ship GB200 AI servers, given its robust integrated manufacturing capabilities, Liu said.
Up to 90 percent of the key components used to build GB200 servers are made by Hon Hai, excluding semiconductors such as central processing units and graphic processing units, he said.
A majority of server components used in liquid cooling systems, advanced switches, boards and racks are made within the group, he added.
The company’s strong integrated manufacturing capabilities enable Hon Hai to secure close partnerships with Nvidia in developing next-generation AI chips, Liu said, responding to a reporter’s question about whether the Taiwanese firm would produce new servers equipped with Nvidia’s next-generation GB300 chips next year.
Hon Hai also talked about “sovereignty servers,” a term originated from “sovereignty AI,” to address national security and data protection concerns.
To cope with demand for secure systems, AI servers would be made domestically or in an adjacent region for the nation that orders such products, Liu said.
Hon Hai, the world’s largest electronics manufacturing services provider, operates more than 200 manufacturing sites across 24 countries.
At the tech event, Hon Hai unveiled two new electric vehicles — the multipurpose vehicle Model D and minivan Model U.
The company also demonstrated a new concept car, the Model A, which is smaller than the Model D and designed as an “affordable” electric vehicle for the mass market, it said.
Hon Hai also showcased a new version of its Model C passenger vehicle for North American customers, which would enter volume production by the end of next year at the company’s factory in Ohio.
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