Foxconn and other gadget-makers are expanding their empires
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Published 1/9/2025 on economist.com
Business | Beyond the iPhone
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Jan 9th 2025
Foxconn, a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, is best known for making iPhones in China. Yet in October it announced plans to build a megafactory in Mexico that will churn out servers made with artificial-intelligence (AI) chips from Nvidia, a semiconductor giant. To meet the roaring demand for AI, the plant’s capacity will be, as Young Liu, Foxconn’s chairman put it, “very, very enormous”.
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