Foxconn to build Nvidia super chip plant in Mexico

MEXICO - Foxconn is building the world's largest plant in Mexico to assemble Nvidia's GB200 superchips, a key component of the U.S. firm's next-generation Blackwell family computing platform, senior executives at the Taiwanese company said.

Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer and known for being the biggest assembler of Apple's iPhone, has benefited from the rise of artificial intelligence as it assembles servers used to process AI jobs.

"We are building the largest GB200 production plant on the planet,” said Benjamin Ting, Foxconn's senior vice president for the enterprise cloud solutions business group.

Nvidia said in August that it had begun shipping Blackwell samples to partners and customers after tweaking its design, and that it expected multibillion-dollar revenue from these chips in the fourth quarter.

Ting said the partnership between his company and Nvidia was very important and that everyone was asking for Nvidia's Blackwell platform.

“The demand is terribly high,” Ting said at the company's annual technology day in Taipei, alongside Nvidia's vice president for AI and robotics, Deepu Talla.

In later remarks, Foxconn president Young Liu said the plant was being built in Mexico and that capacity there would be “very, very huge.” He gave no further details.

Foxconn already has a large manufacturing presence in Mexico and has invested more than US$500 million to date in the state of Chihuahua.