Nvidia links up with Foxconn, Quanta on AI servers- Nikkei Asian Review

Leading graphics chip designer Nvidia said on Wednesday that it had formed a partnership with Foxconn Technology Group and Quanta Computer to develop servers that offer artificial intelligence capabilities. "In the long term, artificial intelligence computing has the largest market potential, as every data center in the future will have artificial intelligence," Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang told an audience at a tech forum in Taipei on Wednesday. The development of next-generation technologies including connected devices, driverless cars and smart cities require servers that can handle massive amounts of data, images and videos. "We have to work with server companies such as Quanta and Foxconn [whose formal name is Hon Hai Precision Industry], as we are now a computing platform company but no longer only a gaming graphic processor company," Huang said. While Nvidia controls more than 70% of the high-end PC graphic chip market, it is now locking horns with Intel for data center server-related chips.