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Time of India

Foxconn, Nvidia deepen AI partnership for smart cities, smart EVs; to set up 100MW data center

Apple iPhone manufacturer, Hon Hai Technology Group ( Foxconn ), and artificial intelligence (AI) giant Nvidia have deepened their partnership to tap into opportunities in the smart cities, smart factories, and smart electric vehicles (EV) sectors. Foxconn's Chairman & CEO, Young Liu, said the company has developed its own AI foundational model, FoxBrain, which it will offer to customers in the three industries, adding that Japanese Mitsubishi will be among the first original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to utilise its smart EV reference models. The FoxBrain is built on open-source models, including the Meta Llama-3 and -4, and is hosted at Foxconn's Kaohsiung data center, which uses Nvidia H100, GB200, and GB300 AI chips. Foxconn's first-generation model specialises in reasoning with agentic workflows for domain-specific applications. 'Mitsubishi will be the very first car OEMs to utilise our reference models. Customers can use our reference models to eliminate about 80% of their work, and the remaining work can be invested into making new EVs,' Liu said at the Computex 2025 event being held in Taipei, Taiwan. Recently, the EV unit of Foxconn, Foxtron, agreed in-principle to develop and supply an EV model to Mitsubishi Motors. The Foxconn chief executive's comments underline the growing significance of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) across industries, including automobile, for efficiency gains and cost savings. Lately, the Taiwanese firm has been expanding into new segments ranging from EVs to semiconductors and servers. Foxconn is building a data center of 100MW capacity with Nvidia software and hardware in Taiwan to enable the rapidly growing number of AI applications that demand huge computing power. 'With the smart manufacturing , smart EV, and smart city, we need an AI factory to power these three smart platforms. That is how we put all this together,' Liu said, adding that the data center will be constructed in phases, initially being set up with 20MW. 'Within the last 18 months, we have gone through all this exercise to come out with the current status. Together, we work with Nvidia and other partners to create whole ecosystems, and hopefully, with all these ecosystems, we can become the leader in AI manufacturing,' he said. Jensen Huang, CEO, Nvidia, said that Foxconn is using Nvidia Metropolis for smart cities and factories, Nvidia Isaac for robotics, Nvidia Drive for autonomous vehicles, and Nvidia Omniverse as the digital twin operating system. 'We announced that we are going to build an AI factory for you to use, for me to use, and for Taiwan and the entire ecosystem to use. Foxconn is going to be a world-class regional AI cloud provider ,' Huang said. Most of the iPhones made by Foxconn makes for Apple are assembled in China. The contract manufacturer is also building a large manufacturing facility in Mexico to produce AI servers for Nvidia.