Foxconn to build world's largest superchip facility in Mexico

Foxconn announced it is building a major superchip facility in Mexico. It said it will be the world's largest manufacturing location for bundling Nvidia's superchips.

The chips are a key component of the U.S. firm's next-generation Blackwell family computing platform. Benjamin Ting is a leading figure at Foxconn: "We're building the largest GB200 production facility on the planet."

Foxconn is the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer and known as Apple's biggest iPhone assembler.

It has done well from the artificial intelligence boom as it assembles servers used to process AI work.

Nvidia said in August it had started shipping Blackwell samples to its partners and customers after tweaking its design.

It expects several billion dollars in revenue from these chips in the fourth quarter. Ting said the partnership between his company and Nvidia was very important and that demand for Nvidia's Blackwell platform was awfully huge.

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

Chairman Young Liu said the company's supply chain was ready for the AI revolution. He added the company's outlook in the current quarter was strong, though he did not give details. Liu said Foxconn’s supply chain was ready for the AI revolution, adding its manufacturing capabilities include the “advanced liquid cooling and heat dissipation technologies necessary to complement the GB200 server’s infrastructure”.

He said the company’s outlook in the current quarter was strong, but did not give details.

Foxconn posted its highest-ever revenue for the third quarter on strong demand for AI servers.

Foxconn’s other focus is ambitious plans to diversify away from its role of building consumer electronics for Apple, hoping to use its tech know-how to offer electric vehicle (EV) contract manufacturing and also produce vehicles using models built by the Foxtron brand.