Nvidia and Foxconn have announced a collaboration to create data center modules tailored for AI-powered factories using Nvidia’s Grace Hopper chips.
Under this partnership, Foxconn (Hon Hai Technology Group), will leverage Nvidia technology to develop a novel class of data centers. These data centers will serve a variety of factory applications, including the digitization of manufacturing and inspection processes, the creation of AI-powered electric vehicle and robotics platforms, and the expansion of language-based generative AI services.
The two companies will be working on ‘AI factories,’ which will be equipped with specialized Nvidia GPU computing infrastructure designed to process, refine, and convert data into AI models and tokens. This infrastructure will include the GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip hardware in addition to Nvidia AI Enterprise software.
The custom designs are expected to be based on Nvidia’s HGX reference designs, featuring eight H100 Tensor Core GPUs per system, GH200 Superchips, OVX reference designs, and Nvidia networking.
These AI factories will empower users to train AI models, optimize factory workflows, and conduct simulations before implementing them in the real world.
Foxconn is poised to construct a significant number of systems based on Nvidia CPUs, GPUs, and networking to serve its global clientele who are interested in establishing their own AI factories.
Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, remarked, “A new type of manufacturing has emerged — the production of intelligence. And the data centers that produce it are AI factories. Foxconn, the world’s largest manufacturer, has the expertise and scale to build AI factories globally. We are delighted to expand our decade-long partnership with Foxconn to accelerate the AI industrial revolution.”
Foxconn’s Chairman and CEO, Young Liu, added, “Nvidia and Foxconn are building these factories together. We will be helping the whole industry move much faster into the new AI era.”
Additionally, Foxconn is developing several platforms based on Nvidia technologies. These include the Smart EV solution based on Nvidia Drive Hyperion 9, the Smart Manufacturing robotic systems built on the Nvidia Isaac autonomous mobile robot platform, and the Smart City offering that incorporates the Nvidia Metropolis video analytics platform.
Nvidia’s advanced chips in AI applications has jumped the company’s stock market value to over $1 trillion, making it the fifth publicly traded US company to join the “Trillion dollar club”, along with Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon.
