Hon Hai Technology Group, better known as Foxconn, used their Hon Hai Tech Day 2025 to send a clear message to the tech industry: they no longer want to be just “the world’s factory” but a key player in the new era of artificial intelligence and supercomputing.
During the event, held at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, the Taiwanese company brought together some of the most influential players of the moment: NVIDIA, OpenAI, Alphabet, IBM, ABB Robotics, Uber, and Mitsubishi Fuso, among others. This lineup illustrates how strongly Foxconn is accelerating its transformation into a platform as a service provider driven by AI.
From industrial supplier to AI platform
Foxconn’s chairman, Young Liu, emphasized in his speech that the group’s main competitive advantage lies in its vertical integration: from hardware design and manufacturing to launching data centers and smart electric vehicles.
“We have the technological depth and industrial experience needed to turn ideas into real products quickly, reliably, and at scale,” Liu stated. This combination of manufacturing capacity and technological ambition is enabling Foxconn to forge alliances with some of the world’s leading AI and cloud computing companies.
The company is in the midst of a major shift: transitioning from simply assembling devices for third parties to a model where its own supercomputing, robotics, and electric vehicle solutions aim to become benchmarks within the AI ecosystem.
Backed by OpenAI and Alphabet
One of the most anticipated messages came from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who appeared via video to discuss the new strategic partnership with Foxconn. Altman highlighted that the demand for critical AI infrastructure components “already exceeds supply,” and this supply chain tension will likely continue in the coming years.
“The partnership with Foxconn aims to strengthen supply chains to meet the current and future needs of the industry,” Altman explained, hinting that the Taiwanese giant will be a key partner in deploying next-generation data centers and computing nodes.
Alphabet also publicly recognized its relationship with Foxconn. Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google’s product lead for the so-called “other bets,” described the Taiwanese company as “an important partner for Google and Alphabet,” noting that their collaboration has enabled “some of the most significant technological innovations of the last decade.”
A mega supercomputing center with 10,000 Blackwell GPUs
One of the most striking announcements at Hon Hai Tech Day 2025 was the plan to build an advanced supercomputing center based on NVIDIA’s upcoming GPU generation.
Foxconn, a partner of NVIDIA Cloud in Taiwan (NCP), is investing about $1.4 billion in a facility that will utilize the GB300 NVL72 AI infrastructure, equipped with 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs. The goal is to have the center operational by the first half of 2026, making it among the first in Asia to utilize the most advanced Blackwell platform.
Neo Yao, CEO of Visionbay—Foxconn’s subsidiary leading this project—outlined the roadmap for these “AI factories” alongside Alexis Bjorlin, Vice President of NVIDIA DGX Cloud. Both explained how the combination of cutting-edge hardware and managed services aims to provide companies and developers with infrastructure capable of training large language models, advanced vision systems, and generative AI applications.
AI, robotics, and the factories of the future
Beyond supercomputing, Hon Hai Tech Day 2025 focused on the evolution of humanoid robots and smart manufacturing. Foxconn and ABB Robotics executives discussed how industrial plants are transitioning from simple, fixed robotic systems to more flexible platforms capable of handling complex tasks and reconfiguring quickly.
In this context, the company also addressed the emerging role of quantum technologies and their potential to revolutionize what is called Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Although still a medium- to long-term horizon, Foxconn aims to position itself now as an integrator of traditional hardware, AI accelerators, and future quantum processors within the same production lines and data centers.
A modular data center ready for AI
The exhibition area of HHTD25, the largest ever, showcased over 200 products and technologies. For the first time, a modular container-based data center model designed specifically for AI workloads was displayed.
This module, equipped with GB300 infrastructure, aims to offer “turnkey” solutions ranging from Level 1 component manufacturing to full system integration at Level 12. The idea is for clients to deploy supercomputing nodes in weeks, with pre-integrated cooling, power, networking, and management systems.
This approach aligns with Foxconn’s strategy to leverage its extensive industrial muscle to produce data centers as standardized “products” rather than custom projects.
Investing in intelligent electric vehicles
The other major pillar of Foxconn’s message was electric mobility. At HHTD25, the MODEL A was unveiled—a B-segment electric vehicle combining AI and a modular architecture capable of adapting to various uses based on a common reference platform.
Outside the venue, up to six units of the MODEL B—a compact crossover—were displayed, some in new colors; three versions of the MODEL A; the electric bus MODEL T with Foxconn’s motor and battery; the medium-duty transport vehicle MODEL U; the LMUV MODEL D; and the North American version of the family SUV MODEL C.
All these form part of the reference vehicle platform Foxconn offers to manufacturers and fleet operators to accelerate the development of new electric cars, buses, and commercial vehicles. The aim is to replicate the approach already used in consumer electronics: a base ecosystem of designs that customers can customize and launch as their own products.
Vertical integration for the AI era
The 2025 edition of Hon Hai Tech Day confirmed that Foxconn aims to compete at the highest levels in AI—not just as a component supplier but as a builder of data centers, robotic platforms, and connected vehicles.
This strategy is built on a hard-to-match vertical integration: controlling hardware manufacturing, providing design capacity, developing supercomputing solutions, and teaming up with leading software and AI companies such as NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Alphabet.
With the demand for chips, servers, and AI solutions growing faster than supply, this combination of manufacturing power and strategic alliances positions Foxconn as one of the key players to watch in the coming years. The company seeks to shed its image as a mere “shadow manufacturer” and become central to the infrastructure enabling the next wave of AI innovation.
For the global tech sector, the message is clear: the race to lead the AI era is no longer just about software labs or cloud giants. It’s also about factories, assembly centers, and supply chains. And in that arena, Foxconn has demonstrated its intent to play a leading role.