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Foxconn Building Nvidia Superchip Facility In Mexico (reuters.com)

(Tuesday October 08, 2024 @11:30PM (BeauHD) from the what-to-expect dept.)


Foxconn has chosen Mexico for the site of the [1]world's largest manufacturing facility for Nvidia's GB200 superchips . These chips are a "key component of the U.S. firm's next-generation Blackwell family computing platform," notes Reuters. From the report:

> "We're building the largest GB200 production facility on the planet," said Benjamin Ting, Foxconn senior vice president for the cloud enterprise solutions business group. Nvidia said in August that it had started shipping Blackwell samples to its partners and customers after tweaking its design, and expected 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 everyone was asking for Nvidia's Blackwell platform. "The demand is awfully huge," Ting said at the company's annual tech day in Taipei, standing next to Nvidia's vice president for AI and robotics, Deepu Talla.

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> Speaking to reporters later, Foxconn Chairman Young Liu said the plant was being built in Mexico, and that the capacity there would be "very, very enormous". He did not elaborate. Foxconn already has a large manufacturing presence in Mexico and has invested more than $500 million to date in the state of Chihuahua. Liu said the company'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."



[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/foxconn-says-it-is-building-worlds-largest-manufacturing-facility-for-nvidias-2024-10-08/



what about that Wisconsin plant did you pay back t (Score:2)

by Joe_Dragon ( 2206452 )

what about that Wisconsin plant did you pay back the funds from that?

Re: (Score:2)

by ItsJustAPseudonym ( 1259172 )

Cheese.

Re: what about that Wisconsin plant did you pay ba (Score:2)

by gabrieltss ( 64078 )

No they did not. Thank you Scott Walker for that botched wet dream!!

Re: (Score:1)

by backslashdot ( 95548 )

Cost of anything in the US with unionized labor is too unpredictable (Reference: [1]https://youtu.be/822WNvhQHKI?t... [youtu.be] ), and that's assume you can survived getting sued for misgendering someone during their femme hour (Reference: [2]https://www.jacksonlewis.com/i... [jacksonlewis.com] ).

Given that, assume it was your money and business on the line .. would you risk building a factory here? Would you risk losing everything, because of the actions of a few clowns?

[1] https://youtu.be/822WNvhQHKI?t=922

[2] https://www.jacksonlewis.com/insights/gender-identity-protections-transgender-harassment-reverse-discrimination-cases-allowed-courts

Maybe they will go home now? (Score:1)

by p51d007 ( 656414 )

Other than the free food, housing, phones...maybe some of the illegal aliens will go back to Mexico?

Foxconn are bundling the chips not making them (Score:2)

by anonymous scaredycat ( 7362120 )

"Foxconn is building in Mexico the world's largest manufacturing facility for bundling Nvidia's GB200 superchips"

Presumably this means assembling boards containing the GB200 chips which will probably be made by TSMC.

Re: (Score:2)

by silentbozo ( 542534 )

How long before the drug cartels start hijacking truck shipments of blackwell GPUs to export to China?

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by timeOday ( 582209 )

Hah. Then they're about to find out what sort of security you can purchase for an export even more high-value than cocaine.

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by timeOday ( 582209 )

Nvidia's description about the BG200 "Superchip" (composed of two chips) vs the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 rackmount system is clear as mud:

> GB200 NVL72 connects 36 Grace CPUs and 72 Blackwell GPUs in a rack-scale design. The GB200 NVL72 is a liquid-cooled, rack-scale solution that boasts a 72-GPU NVLink domain that acts as a single massive GPU and delivers 30X faster real-time trillion-parameter LLM inference.

> The GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip is a key component of the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, connecting two high-per

What about Wisconsin. (Score:1)

by msobel ( 661289 )

Isn't that where the Republicans made a great deal?

According to Gemini:

"oxconn received a significant package of tax benefits and other incentives from the state of Wisconsin. The exact amount varies depending on the specific terms of the agreement, but it's generally estimated to be in the billions of dollars.

These incentives may include:

Tax credits: Reductions in corporate income tax or sales tax.

Job training grants: Funding to help train workers for the factory.

Infrastructure improvements: Investments in

Sounds useless (Score:2)

by gweihir ( 88907 )

LLMs are not in need of more computing power. They are in need of better models and that means different tech.

Cartels? (Score:2)

by Malay2bowman ( 10422660 )

Serious question. It's very dangerous in Mexico right now because of the cartel violence. Maybe they will be OK if the plant is in Mexico City or whereabouts, but the northern parts are defently off the table at the moment.

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