Foxconn and Nvidia announced a collaboration at this week Computex show in Taipei to drive intelligent ecosystems covering AI, electric vehicles, smart factories, robotics, smart cities and other fields.

Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Technology, announced it plans to build a computing centre in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, with the Nvidia Blackwell platform at its core.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Foxconn CEO Young Liu caught up with each other on the exhibition floor of Computex, and talked about their cooperation on a stand set up by Foxconn subsidiary Ingrasys that has been at the manufacturing epicentre of Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72, MGX, HGX and other products.

Huang said Nvidia and Foxconn had worked closely together on various product developments, and the proof of the cooperation was clear, especially with the Blackwell product line; Foxconn has vertical integration capabilities and is a partner for the GB200.

Liu said Foxconn would join hands with Nvidia to build the computing centre in Kaohsiung. The centre, anchored by the superchip GB200 servers and consisting of 64 racks and 4608 GPUs, is slated for completion by 2026.

Nvidia AI technology will drive Foxconn’s three smart platforms: smart manufacturing, smart EVs and smart cities. Both companies will continue to deepen cooperation in AI, electric vehicles, smart factories, robots, smart cities and other fields, and demonstrate the competitiveness brought by AI through Foxconn’s manufacturing scale.

“A new era of computing has dawned, fuelled by surging global demand for generative AI data centres,” Huang said. “Foxconn stands at the forefront as a leading supplier of Nvidia computing and a trailblazer in the application of generative AI in manufacturing and robotics. Leveraging Nvidia Omniverse and Isaac robotics platforms, Foxconn is harnessing AI and digital-twin technologies to construct the computing centre in Kaohsiung.”

The two companies will use Nvidia Omniverse and create digital twins to introduce platforms for smart manufacturing, smart electric vehicles and smart cities. For smart manufacturing platforms, image recognition technology, combined with the group’s autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), will lead to changes for optimal capacity use. The production line planning will encompass existing manufacturing of AI servers and EV assembly plants.

Towards that goal, the Qiaotou automotive manufacturing facilities of Foxtron, a Foxconn subsidiary, will become one of the group’s benchmark AI factories. Currently under construction, the site will use a digital twin connected to cloud technologies and achieve collaboration between virtual and physical production lines. Digital real-time monitoring will ensure the manufacturing quality of an electric bus, which is seeing orders outpacing output capacity.

Going forward, the two companies’ collaborative efforts in an EV ADAS platform will be applied to future EV models designed by Foxconn. Presently, Foxconn is negotiating projects with traditional European and American automakers. Moreover, based on Nvidia’s latest chips, Foxconn (www.foxconn.com) and Nvidia (www.nvidia.com) jointly plan a cabin-driving-in-one smart travel offering, creating a third living space.