NVIDIA and Foxconn team up to accelerate digitalization through AI
NVIDIA is collaborating with Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) in a bid to boost AI capabilities across several areas.
As part of the partnership, Foxconn will integrate NVIDIA technology to develop new data centers that include digitalization of manufacturing and inspection workflows, development of AI-powered electric vehicle and robotics platforms, and language-based generative AI services.
Announced at Hon Hai Tech Day, in Taipei, Taiwan, the collaboration will start with the creation of AI factories – an NVIDIA GPU computing infrastructure built for processing data into AI models and tokens, according to both companies.
Foxconn is also currently developing its smart solution platforms based on NVIDIA technologies.
Foxconn’s Smart EV will be built on NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion 9, its Smart Manufacturing robotic systems will be built on the NVIDIA Isaac autonomous mobile robot platform, and the Foxconn smart city will incorporate the NVIDIA Metropolis video analytics platform.
“Most importantly, NVIDIA and Foxconn are building these factories together. We will be helping the whole industry move much faster into the new AI era,” says Foxconn chairman and CEO, Young Liu.
Foxconn plans to work closely with NVIDIA to build systems based on NVIDIA CPUs, GPUs and networking for its customers.
“A new type of manufacturing has emerged — the production of intelligence. And the data centers that produce it are AI factories,” adds NVIDIA founder and CEO, Jensen Huang.
“Foxconn, the world’s largest manufacturer, has the expertise and scale to build AI factories globally. We are delighted to expand our decade-long partnership with Foxconn to accelerate the AI industrial revolution.”
The company says it is also working on delivering a range of NVIDIA DRIVE solutions to automakers.
As a contract manufacturer, Foxconn adds it will offer automated and autonomous EVs featuring the upcoming NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion 9 platform, which includes DRIVE Thor and a sensor architecture.
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