Taiwan’s Foxconn Says It’s Building World’s Largest Nvidia Superchip Plant

Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer Foxconn is building the world’s largest production plant for Nvidia’s GB200 “superchips,” which are used to run artificial intelligence (AI) servers, the company announced on Tuesday. The GB200 chips are a key component of Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell computing platform, which it said would enable organizations to run real-time generative AI on “trillion-parameter large language models” with lower cost and energy consumption. Benjamin Ting, Foxconn’s senior vice president of the cloud enterprise solutions business group, said the company is building a large production plant to meet the rising demand for the Blackwell platform. “We’re building the largest GB200 production facility on the planet,” Ting said during the company’s annual tech day in Taipei on Oct. 8. “The demand is awfully huge.”...