Foxconn and NVIDIA will build Taiwan’s fastest AI supercomputer

Foxconn and NVIDIA have joined forces to build Taiwan’s largest supercomputer. According to the NVIDIA press service, the Hon Hai Kaohsiung Super Computing Center project was presented during the traditional Foxconn event – Hon Hai Tech Day, held last Tuesday. Computing power will be built on the basis of the advanced NVIDIA Blackwell architecture – the GB200 NVL72 platform, including 64 racks, will be used.

With an expected AI computing performance of over 90 Eflops (FP4), the machine can easily be considered the fastest in Taiwan. Foxconn intends to use the supercomputer for medical research, development of large language models (LLM) and innovation in smart city systems. This could make Taiwan one of the leaders in the AI ​​industry.

As part of its “three platform” strategy, Foxconn focuses on smart manufacturing, smart cities and electric transport. The new supercomputer is designed to play a key role in supporting the company’s initiatives to create digital twins, automate robotics and create smart city infrastructure.

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Construction has already begun in Taiwan’s Kaohsiung municipality, with the first phase expected to be operational by mid-2025. The computer will become fully operational in 2026. The project will actively use NVIDIA technologies such as the NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac robotic platforms for AI and “digital twins.”

Foxconn claims that the supercomputer will not only be the largest in Taiwan, but also one of the most productive in the world. Each GB200 NVL72 rack includes 36 Grace CPUs and 72 Blackwell accelerators, connected by NVIDIA NVLink interconnect (total 130 TB/s). NVIDIA NVLink Switch technology will allow a system of 72 accelerators to function as a single computing module – the optimal option for training AI models and inference in real time, with trillion-parameter models. It is planned to use NVIDIA DGX Cloud Infrastructure and Spectrum-X solutions to support scalable training of AI models.

Taiwan’s Foxconn (officially Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.) is the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, known for producing a variety of devices, from smartphones to servers, for popular customers around the world. The company already has production facilities around the world and is a key player in the global technology infrastructure. At the same time, the manufacturer is considered one of the leaders in organizing “smart” production, implementing industrial AI systems and digitalizing factories using NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud. In addition, she was one of the first to use NVIDIA NIM microservices in the development of language models integrated into many internal systems and processes in enterprises, the creation of smart electric vehicles and the infrastructure of smart cities.

The Hon Hai Kaohsiung Super Computing Center is just one part of a growing global network of cutting-edge projects based on NVIDIA solutions. The network includes several significant projects in Europe and Asia. Cooperation between companies is becoming closer. During the same event, a collaboration between Foxconn and NVIDIA in Mexico was announced. The former will build a plant in the country to package NVIDIA semiconductors.