Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) yesterday said it would start shipping new artificial intelligence (AI) server racks powered by Nvidia Corp’s latest graphics processing units (GPUs) in December.
“From November, Hon Hai is to enter mass production of servers or racks equipped with GB200 chips along with the liquid-cooling systems for those machines,” Hon Hai spokesman James Wu (巫俊毅) said on the sidelines of a news conference to launch the company’s annual technology event in Taipei.
The announcement comes after Nvidia resolved a design flaw in its new-generation Blackwell chips.
Photo: Fang Wei-chieh, Taipei Times
That would pave the way for the first shipments of GB200 server racks in December from its manufacturing sites in Taiwan, Mexico and the US, Wu said.
Shipments are expected to increase in the first quarter next year, he said.
About 80 percent of the components for the new AI servers, such as switches and cooling systems, are supplied by Hon Hai, excluding GPUs and CPUs, Wu said.
Typically, Hon Hai supplies half of the components for the hardware it assembles, he said.
Most of the new AI servers would be equipped with GB200 NVL72 chips, which has more computing power than GB200 NVL36 chips, Wu said.
GB200 NVL72 has 72 GPUs in one rack, doubling the 36 GPUs of the GB200 NVL 36, Nvidia said.
Hon Hai said it is to showcase the new server racks powered by the GB200 chip at the Hon Hai Tech event on Tuesday and Wednesday next week.
“We will showcase the mass production version of GB200 [installed in the servers], rather than just a model as displayed during the Computex trade show in June,” Wu said, adding that “coolant will be injected into the cooling systems.”
Hon Hai is also to demonstrate new electric vehicles (EV), including the Model D multiple-purpose vehicle and the Model U minivan, at the event.
The company expects to secure new orders soon from traditional automakers other than start-ups, Wu said.
In August, the company said it was in talks with two automakers in Japan, which has become one of the most important EV markets for Hon Hai.
When an apartment comes up for rent in Germany’s big cities, hundreds of prospective tenants often queue down the street to view it, but the acute shortage of affordable housing is getting scant attention ahead of today’s snap general election. “Housing is one of the main problems for people, but nobody talks about it, nobody takes it seriously,” said Andreas Ibel, president of Build Europe, an association representing housing developers. Migration and the sluggish economy top the list of voters’ concerns, but analysts say housing policy fails to break through as returns on investment take time to register, making the
‘SILVER LINING’: Although the news caused TSMC to fall on the local market, an analyst said that as tariffs are not set to go into effect until April, there is still time for negotiations US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he would likely impose tariffs on semiconductor, automobile and pharmaceutical imports of about 25 percent, with an announcement coming as soon as April 2 in a move that would represent a dramatic widening of the US leader’s trade war. “I probably will tell you that on April 2, but it’ll be in the neighborhood of 25 percent,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club when asked about his plan for auto tariffs. Asked about similar levies on pharmaceutical drugs and semiconductors, the president said that “it’ll be 25 percent and higher, and it’ll
NOT TO WORRY: Some people are concerned funds might continue moving out of the country, but the central bank said financial account outflows are not unusual in Taiwan Taiwan’s outbound investments hit a new high last year due to investments made by contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) and other major manufacturers to boost global expansion, the central bank said on Thursday. The net increase in outbound investments last year reached a record US$21.05 billion, while the net increase in outbound investments by Taiwanese residents reached a record US$31.98 billion, central bank data showed. Chen Fei-wen (陳斐紋), deputy director of the central bank’s Department of Economic Research, said the increase was largely due to TSMC’s efforts to expand production in the US and Japan. Investments by Vanguard International
WARNING SHOT: The US president has threatened to impose 25 percent tariffs on all imported vehicles, and similar or higher duties on pharmaceuticals and semiconductors US President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested that a trade deal with China was “possible” — a key target in the US leader’s tariffs policy. The US in 2020 had already agreed to “a great trade deal with China” and a new deal was “possible,” Trump said. Trump said he expected Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) to visit the US, without giving a timeline for his trip. Trump also said that he was talking to China about TikTok, as the US seeks to broker a sale of the popular app owned by Chinese firm ByteDance Ltd (字節跳動). Trump last week said that he had
RSS