Taiwan Foxconn "Building World's Largest Nvidia GB200 Chip Factory"

Taiwan's Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry) announced on the 8th that it is building the world's largest factory to manufacture NVIDIA's GB200 chip, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) chips.

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According to major foreign media, Benjamin Ting, Senior Vice President of Foxconn's Cloud Enterprise Solutions division, emphasized the partnership between Foxconn and NVIDIA at Foxconn's annual Tech Day event held in Taipei on the same day.

Vice President Ting explained, "We are building this factory to meet the tremendous demand for NVIDIA's Blackwell platform," adding that inquiries about the Blackwell platform are pouring in. He also said, "We are constructing the largest GB200 production facility on Earth," but did not disclose the specific location, stating, "We cannot reveal where it is right now."

The GB200 is a new AI chip produced by NVIDIA based on the Blackwell architecture. Blackwell is the latest chip succeeding NVIDIA's existing AI chips such as the H100 and H200, which are based on the Hopper architecture, and mass production will begin in earnest from the fourth quarter. This product supports AI training and real-time large language model (LLM) inference for models scaled up to 10 trillion parameters. It is manufactured using the process of Taiwan's TSMC, the world's largest foundry (semiconductor contract manufacturer).

NVIDIA plans to offer the 'GB200 NVL72' computing unit, which combines 72 Blackwell GPUs with 36 of its own central processing units (CPUs) called Grace. In this case, NVIDIA previously explained that the 'GB200' will provide up to 30 times the performance improvement over the H100 in large language models (LLMs).

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