Foxconn, the largest electronics manufacturer and the supplier of Apple, has taken a natural drift towards producing electric vehicles (EVs) this year. NVIDIA is helping them bring this to life, alongside developing automated and autonomous vehicle platforms.
“This partnership will provide scale for volume manufacturing to meet growing demand for the NVIDIA DRIVE platform,” said its chief Huang Jensen, in its recent record-breaking earnings.
He said that Foxconn will be using the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion, and sensor architecture for its electric vehicles. Further, he said the company would be a Tier 1 manufacturer producing electronic control units based on NVIDIA DRIVE Orin for global automotive vehicles.
This also comes in the backdrop of the NVIDIA DRIVE operating system receiving safety certification from TUV SUD. “One of the most experienced and rigorous assessment bodies in the automotive industry,” said Jensen, saying that their platform meets the higher standards required for autonomous transportation.
The alliance of NVIDIA and Foxconn is unique, and the partnership initiates the establishment of AI factories, utilising NVIDIA’s GPU computing infrastructure explicitly designed for processing, refining, and converting extensive datasets into valuable AI models and tokens.
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“Foxconn, the world’s largest manufacturer, has the expertise and scale to build AI factories globally. We are delighted to expand our decade-long partnership with Foxconn to accelerate the AI industrial revolution,” Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, said about their collaboration with Foxconn.
Foxconn is also leveraging NVIDIA Omniverse for the manufacturing of EVs. With the support of an extensive partner network, manufacturers strengthen their workflow to plan, build, operate, and optimize their factories using a range of NVIDIA technologies.
Why is everyone making EVs?
Apple, Oppo, Xiaomi, Samsung, Huawei, and almost everyone are looking to make EVs. Now, Foxconn also joins that list. Driven by government incentives promoting the production of eco-friendly vehicles, these companies have opted to transition into the automotive sector.
All of this comes in the backdrop of the United Nations issuing a red alert on climate change, and a lot of transport aggregators have also made commitments to achieve its sustainable goals. For instance, Uber said that it would be going carbon neutral by 2025.
In light of these events, a lot of smartphone manufacturers and electronic manufacturers are transitioning to bridge the supply and demand gap, and EVs just make it more lucrative than ever. NVIDIA is making it much easier for all of them.
