Foxconn taps Nvidia for AI data centres and EV factories
Nvidia is collaborating with Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) to build data centres and factories for the next generation of electric vehicles (EV)
Foxconn will integrate Nvidia technology for data centres powering a wide range of applications — including digitalization of manufacturing and inspection workflows, development of AI-powered electric vehicle and robotics platforms and a growing number of language-based generative AI services.
The collaboration starts with the creation of AI factories, turning vast amounts of data into valuable AI models and tokens using the latest Nvidia GH200 Grace Hopper ‘Superchip’ and AI Enterprise software.
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“Most importantly, NVIDIA and Foxconn are building these factories together. We will be helping the whole industry move much faster into the new AI era,” said Foxconn Chairman and CEO Young Liu.
“A new type of manufacturing has emerged — the production of intelligence. And the data centrese that produce it are AI factories,” said Huang. “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.”
Advances in edge AI and simulation are enabling deployment of autonomous mobile robots that can travel several miles a day and industrial robots for assembling components, applying coatings, packaging and performing quality inspections.
An AI factory with these NVIDIA platforms can give Foxconn the ability to accomplish AI training and inference, enhance factory workflows and run simulations in the virtual world before deployment in the physical world. Simulating the entire robotics and automation pipeline from end to end provides Foxconn with a path to operational efficiency gains, saving time and costs.
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The latest Foxconn Smart EV will be built on Nvidia’s DRIVE Hyperion 9 sensor platform for autonomous automotive fleets, powered by the Nvidia Thor system-on-chip. Foxconn also has deals with NXP and Infineon for semiconductors for EVs and has its own silicon carbide fab for power devices.
The factory building the EV will use a Smart Manufacturing robotic systems built on Nvidia’s Isaac autonomous mobile robot platform while the Foxconn Smart City will incorporate the NVIDIA Metropolis intelligent video analytics platform.
Among the key Nvidia technologies Foxconn is using to create these custom designs are the HGX reference designs featuring eight Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs per system, the GH200 Superchips, OVX reference designs and NVIDIA networking.
These can be used for generative AI services as well as use simulation to speed up the training of autonomous machines, including industrial robots and self-driving cars.
Foxconn will also deliver a range of DRIVE solutions to global automakers, serving as a tier-one manufacturer of the DRIVE Orin-based electronic control units (ECUs) today and scaling to Thor-based ECUs in the future.
As a contract manufacturer, Foxconn will offer highly automated and autonomous, AI-rich EVs using Hyperion 9 for functionally safe and secure software-defined cars.
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