TAIPEI, Oct 18 Reuters Taiwan39;s Foxconn, the world39;s largest contract electronics maker, will build a new kind of data centre using Nvidia chips and software for a range of applications including selfdriving cars, the companies said on Wednesday.

Sharing a stage at Foxconn39;s annual tech showcase in Taipei, Foxconn Chairman Liu Youngway and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said their companies would build these AI factories together.

A new type of manufacturing has emerged the production of intelligence. And the data centres that produce it are AI factories, Huang said, adding that Foxconn had the expertise and scale to build them globally.

Showing a handdrawn sketch, Huang sporting his signature black leather jacket explained how AI factories could continuously receive and process data from autonomous electric vehicles to make them smarter.

This car would of course go through life experience and collect more data. The data would go to the AI factory. The AI factory would improve the software and update the entire AI fleet, said the Taiwanborn Huang. In the future, every company, every industry, will have AI factories.

Nvidia, the world39;s most valuable chip company, said in a statement that the AI factories would use its chips and software, including its cuttingedge GH200 superchip that it is barred from selling in China.

The announcement comes after Nvidia on Tuesday said new U.S. export restrictions would also block sales of two less powerful highend AI chips…