Foxconn-Nvidia US$1.4 billion Taiwan supercomputing cluster to be ready by H1 2026, Foxconn says

[TAIPEI] Foxconn said on Friday (Nov 21) that a US$1.4 billion supercomputing centre it is building with Nvidia will be ready by the first half of 2026, and when complete will be Taiwan’s largest advanced graphics processing unit (GPU) cluster.

The 27-megawatt data centre will be powered by Nvidia’s new Blackwell GB300 chips and is also set to be Asia’s first GB300 artificial intelligence (AI) data centre, said Neo Yao, chief executive officer of a new unit Foxconn has established for AI supercomputing and cloud operations called Visonbay.ai.

“As GPU technology accelerates, building individual facilities may no longer make economic sense,” said Alexis Bjorlin, a Nvidia vice-president, at the contract electronics manufacturer’s tech day, which was attended by Foxconn’s partners and clients including Nvidia, OpenAI and Uber.

“Renting compute resources may offer a far better return on investment, enabling flexibility and enabling companies to scale their compute according to both product and business cycles,” she said.

Foxconn, Apple’s top iPhone assembler, has been expanding beyond electronics into electric vehicles (EVs) and AI data centres. It is now Nvidia’s main maker of AI racks, which are server racks tailored for AI workloads that house chips, cables and other equipment.

This has made the company a big beneficiary of the data centre boom, as cloud computing firms spend billions of US dollars to expand their AI infrastructure and research capacity.

Foxconn offered a bullish outlook on AI-related demand last week, saying it would be a big driver of 2026 growth. Foxconn chairman Young Liu told Reuters in an interview published earlier on Friday before the event that the company would invest US$2 billion to US$3 billion a year in AI.

Foxconn’s founder, Terry Gou, also made an appearance at the tech day, as did Spencer Huang, a product line manager at Nvidia’s leading robotics product who is also the son of Nvidia founder Jensen Huang. Spencer Huang said that Nvidia was working with Foxconn to bring AI to factories and manufacturing lines.

Liu said the company now has the capability to manufacture 1,000 AI racks per week, and it expects that rate to increase next year.

He also said the company’s EV volumes were just at about the level where automakers could outsource more production to Foxconn, and chief strategy officer Jun Seki showcased the company’s Model A EV on stage.

Liu said that the Model A was designed by Japanese engineers, and that Foxconn plans to eventually set up a company there to serve Japanese customers. The Model A will eventually be made in Japan, too, he said. REUTERS