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The world’s most valuable chip company Nvidia and iPhone maker Foxconn partner to build “AI factories”
Nvidia and Foxconn, the manufacturer behind Apple’s iPhones, have teamed up to create “AI factories,” a novel type of data center. These centers will rely on Nvidia chips to power a broad spectrum of applications, including training autonomous vehicles, running robotics platforms, and managing extensive language models. This partnership comes in the wake of the US announcing new export restrictions on advanced chips to China, which impacts Nvidia. These restrictions will prevent the sale of two high-end artificial intelligence (AI) chips, the A800 and H800, created by Nvidia for the Chinese market. Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, and Foxconn’s chairman, Young