Foxconn building world's largest Nvidia superchip factory

Superchip factory: Foxconn 2317.TW is building world's largest Nvidia GB200 chip manufacturing facility to help meet "awfully huge" demand for AI darling's Blackwell platform, a senior executive at Taiwanese company said on Tuesday.

Foxconn, world's largest contract electronics manufacturer and better know as Apple 's biggest iPhone assembler, has been benefiting from artificial intelligence boom given it also makes servers.

Benjamin Ting, Foxconn senior vice president for cloud enterprise solutions business group, said that partnership between his company and Nvidia NVDA.O was very important.

"We're building largest GB200 production facility on planet - I don't think I can say where now," Ting said at company's annual tech day in Taipei.

He ded that everyone was asking for Nvidia's Blackwell platform.

" demand is awfully huge," Ting ded, standing next to Nvidia's vice president for AI and robotics, Deepu Talla.

Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang appeared at Foxconn's tech day last year, but Talla said that while Huang wanted to be re this year he was not able to make it.