Foxconn is the world’s largest electronics manufacturer (acting as a subcontractor to countless companies), but not only that. It will acquire the largest supercomputer on the island of Taiwan, whose expected power will exceed 90 exaflops. The Hon Hai Kaohsiung Super Computing Center (according to the company’s Chinese name Hon Hai Precision Industry) will be built with support from Nvidia.
It will consist of 64 shelves GB200NVL72which each contain 36 GB200 cards linked together by 5th generation NVLink, complemented by BlueField 3 DPUs for storage management and network optimization. Each rack behaves as a single GPU with 1.4 exaflops of computing power and 30TB of memory.
Digital twins, robots, and large language models
The supercomputer will be used by Foxconn to develop digital twins, robotics applications and smart city-related services. It will be based in particular on the Nvidia Isaac and Omniverse platforms. Obviously, the idea is to use it to improve your business processes. The company also plans to use it to develop large language models (with Nvidia Name) and even for cancer research.
It will be based, as the name suggests, in the city of Kaohsiung, and is scheduled to be partially operational by mid-2025. Foxconn expects a “full” launch in 2026.
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