Foxconn plans to build the world's largest Nvidia GB200 AI chip manufacturing plant in Mexico

On October 8, Reuters reported today that Foxconn Senior Vice President Benjamin Ting announced at the 2024 Hon Hai Technology Day that Foxconn plans to build the world's largest Nvidia GB200 chip manufacturing plant in Mexico, but he did not disclose where the facility will be built.

Foxconn, currently a major supplier to Apple, is expanding its business to manufacture other electronic products. As the demand for AI startups to train large models soars, training these models requires a lot of computing power, so Foxconn also wants to compete for new markets, and getting on Nvidia's giant ship is naturally the first choice.

According to reports in March this year, NVIDIA released its most powerful AI accelerator card GB200 at the GTC 2024 Developer Conference. The card uses the new generation of AI graphics processor architecture Blackwell and is etched using TSMC's 4nm (4NP) process.

Liu Yangwei, chairman of Hon Hai (Foxconn's parent company), said at the event that the company's supply chain is ready for the AI ​​revolution. He talked about Foxconn's advanced manufacturing capabilities, including key technologies such as liquid cooling and heat dissipation systems, which are used to manufacture the necessary infrastructure for Nvidia's GB200 products. The new factory is being built in Mexico, where the production capacity will be "very, very huge."