Overview
- The companies will co-develop multiple generations of AI server racks, with Foxconn manufacturing power, networking, cooling systems and cables at its U.S. facilities.
- OpenAI will get early access to evaluate Foxconn-built systems and holds an option to buy, with no binding purchase commitments or disclosed financial terms.
- Foxconn says the arrangement offers deeper insight into the compute needs of large AI firms as it targets growth from the data-center boom.
- The partnership extends OpenAI’s hardware push that includes custom chip work with Broadcom alongside large cloud and compute deals with major providers.
- Reuters reports Foxconn also unveiled a robotics joint venture with Alphabet’s Intrinsic, while OpenAI has outlined plans to invest about $1.4 trillion to build roughly 30 gigawatts of compute capacity.