Foxconn is the world’s largest electronics manufacturer (working as a subcontractor for countless companies), but not only that. It will acquire the largest supercomputer on the island of Taiwan, whose expected power will exceed 90 exaflops. This Hon Hai Kaohsiung Super Computing Center (according to the Chinese name of the company, Hon Hai Precision Industry), will be built with the support of Nvidia.
It will consist of 64 GB200 NVL72 racks, which each contain 36 GB200 cards linked together by 5th generation NVLink, supplemented by BlueField 3 DPUs to manage storage and network optimization. Each rack behaves like a single GPU with 1.4 exaflops of computing power and 30 TB of memory.
Digital twins, robotics and large language models
The supercomputer will be used by Foxconn to develop digital twins, robotics applications, and smart city-related services. It will rely in particular on the Nvidia Isaac and Omniverse platforms. The idea is obviously to use it to optimize your business processes. The company also plans to use it to develop large language models (with Nvidia NIM) and even for cancer research.
It will be located, as its name suggests, in the city of Kaohsiung, and should be partly operational by mid-2025. Foxconn expects a “full” launch in 2026.
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