Foxconn Building Nvidia Superchip Facility In Mexico (reuters.com) 38
Foxconn has chosen Mexico for the site of the world's largest manufacturing facility for Nvidia's GB200 superchips. These chips are a "key component of the U.S. firm's next-generation Blackwell family computing platform," notes Reuters. From the report: "We're building the largest GB200 production facility on the planet," said Benjamin Ting, Foxconn senior vice president for the cloud enterprise solutions business group. Nvidia said in August that it had started shipping Blackwell samples to its partners and customers after tweaking its design, and expected several billion dollars in revenue from these chips in the fourth quarter. Ting said the partnership between his company and Nvidia was very important and everyone was asking for Nvidia's Blackwell platform. "The demand is awfully huge," Ting said at the company's annual tech day in Taipei, standing next to Nvidia's vice president for AI and robotics, Deepu Talla.
Speaking to reporters later, Foxconn Chairman Young Liu said the plant was being built in Mexico, and that the capacity there would be "very, very enormous". He did not elaborate. Foxconn already has a large manufacturing presence in Mexico and has invested more than $500 million to date in the state of Chihuahua. Liu said the company's supply chain was ready for the AI revolution, adding its manufacturing capabilities include the "advanced liquid cooling and heat dissipation technologies necessary to complement the GB200 server's infrastructure."
Speaking to reporters later, Foxconn Chairman Young Liu said the plant was being built in Mexico, and that the capacity there would be "very, very enormous". He did not elaborate. Foxconn already has a large manufacturing presence in Mexico and has invested more than $500 million to date in the state of Chihuahua. Liu said the company's supply chain was ready for the AI revolution, adding its manufacturing capabilities include the "advanced liquid cooling and heat dissipation technologies necessary to complement the GB200 server's infrastructure."
what about that Wisconsin plant did you pay back t (Score:3)
what about that Wisconsin plant did you pay back the funds from that?
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Touche. Plus, beer.
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Mexico labor 25% less than China (Score:2)
https://www.statista.com/stati... [statista.com]
All of the rest of the 'article facts' are just noise. Mexico has successfully undercut China labor cost by 25%
China $6.50 per hour
Mexico $4.82 per hour
Shipping from Mexico to the USA is significantly cheaper than from China to the USA
Mexico - USA - Canada have a free trade agreement, China's always under a question of possible US imposed trade tariffs
Re: what about that Wisconsin plant did you pay ba (Score:4, Informative)
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Also, who are the dumb shits that thought they would and gave them money... Trump, Paul Ryan, Scott Walker. Dumb ass republicans
Re:Maybe they will go home now? (Score:4, Insightful)
Other than the free food, housing, phones...maybe some of the illegal aliens will go back to
Mexico?
Perhaps all those hotels, restaurants, golf clubs, home builders, construction companies [ice.gov], lawn care companies, meat packers, orchards, and farms, to name just a few, should stop hiring all those illegals and employ Americans. You know, the very people who whine [texastribune.org] about illegals [texastribune.org] taking jobs.
Foxconn are bundling the chips not making them (Score:4, Interesting)
"Foxconn is building in Mexico the world's largest manufacturing facility for bundling Nvidia's GB200 superchips"
Presumably this means assembling boards containing the GB200 chips which will probably be made by TSMC.
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How long before the drug cartels start hijacking truck shipments of blackwell GPUs to export to China?
Re:Foxconn are bundling the chips not making them (Score:4, Insightful)
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Pretty sure they can just sell them in bulk to China:
https://www.techpowerup.com/31... [techpowerup.com]
"This transformation involves disassembling the gaming GPUs, removing the cooling systems and extracting the AD102 GPU and GDDR6X memory from the main PCBs. These components are then re-soldered onto a domestically manufactured "reference" PCB, better suited for AI applications, and equipped with dual-slot blower-style coolers designed for server environments. The third-party coolers that these GPUs come with are 3-4 slots
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Seems like it's multiple dies on a single substrate, like everyone has been doing for years.
What about Wisconsin. (Score:5, Interesting)
Isn't that where the Republicans made a great deal?
According to Gemini:
"oxconn received a significant package of tax benefits and other incentives from the state of Wisconsin. The exact amount varies depending on the specific terms of the agreement, but it's generally estimated to be in the billions of dollars.
These incentives may include:
Tax credits: Reductions in corporate income tax or sales tax.
Job training grants: Funding to help train workers for the factory.
Infrastructure improvements: Investments in roads, utilities, or other infrastructure needed for the project.
Property tax exemptions: Temporary or permanent exemptions from property taxes.
It's important to note that the full extent of these incentives might not be publicly disclosed, as some details may be considered proprietary.
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Ruh-roh! (Score:4, Interesting)
Mexico built a factory (Score:2)
Sounds useless (Score:2)
LLMs are not in need of more computing power. They are in need of better models and that means different tech.
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LLMs are in desperate need of more computing power for current tasks. Everything from making songs and video to interacting with customers at point of sale to providing tech support to looking at radiology pictures, we need better training on current models in addition to better models.
And training requires a lot of computing power.
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Sure, if you want more "better crap". But who, besides a few stupid fanbois, actually wants that?
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Considering who is willing to invest in it, everyone except for a few stupid luddites.
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Money being thrown at something is not a reliable indicator of that something being useful. Takes some actual connection to reality to see that.
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You asked "who wants that?". Money being thrown at something is the single best indicator as to who wants that something something, because unlike words, money is expensive to throw at things. So only people who want that something are willing to throw money at that something.
Whether the wants of people are realistic is a whole different topic.
Cartels? (Score:2)
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https://www.reuters.com/techno... [reuters.com]
"A Mexican government source said the plant would be built in the city of Guadalajara."
https://www.britannica.com/pla... [britannica.com]
"Guadalajara, city, capital of Jalisco estado (state), west-central Mexico."
So they're almost as far south as Mexico City but to the west.
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Mexico is risky right now (Score:2)
If it keeps going like that, we've seen the outcome: it's called Venezuela.
Mexico is currently a very risky place to put a big business investment.
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Mexico is currently a very risky place to put a big business investment.
Yeah, but it's not any riskier than putting it here right now...
Mexico rising is good news. (Score:2)
Only economic development can reduce incentive for economically motivated emigration because strong local economies need workers. A more prosperous nation offers safer alternatives to organized crime.