Taiwanese tech giant Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., also known as Foxconn, today announced a new partnership with OpenAI focused on server design and manufacturing.
As part of the deal, Foxconn plans to initially invest between $1 billion and $5 billion to expand its manufacturing presence in the U.S.
According to a statement from OpenAI, the company will provide insights into emerging hardware needs in the AI industry to assist Foxconn in the design and development of hardware for its U.S. facilities. Although this initial agreement does not involve purchase commitments or financial obligations, OpenAI will gain early access to assess these systems and has the option to buy them.
In an OpenAI press release, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated: “The infrastructure behind advanced AI is a generational opportunity to reindustrialize America. This partnership is a step toward ensuring the core technologies of the AI era are built here. We believe this work will strengthen U.S. leadership and help ensure the benefits of AI are widely shared.”
Foxconn Chairman, Young Liu, said, “We at Foxconn are thrilled to partner with OpenAI—a pioneer at the forefront of the AI digital age. As the world’s largest manufacturer of AI data servers, Foxconn is uniquely positioned to support OpenAI’s mission with trusted, scalable infrastructure that accelerates innovation and broadens access to transformative AI capabilities for businesses and users worldwide.”
Foxconn announced its new partnerships during its annual flagship technology event, Hon Hai Tech Day 2025, held today.
During a speech at the convention, Foxconn Chairman Young Liu said, “Our competitive strength is vertical integration. Our technological depth and manufacturing heritage enables deep collaborations with world-class technology leaders, partners who rely on us because they know that Foxconn can turn ideas into reality – quickly, reliably and at scale. It positions us well as we push into frontier technologies paved open by AI and quantum.”
Speaking via video link, Altman said, “Demand for critical components for AI infrastructure is already far outpacing supply and we expect that will only continue over the coming years. This agreement is about strengthening supply chains to meet existing and future needs across the industry.”
Hiroshi Lockheimer, Alphabet’s Chief Product Officer, said, “Foxconn is an important partner to Google and Alphabet, and our collaboration has helped bring to life some of the most important technological innovations of the past decade.”
Foxconn also announced that it is investing $1.4 billion in an advanced supercomputing center, accelerated by 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, that will utilize next-generation NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 AI infrastructure in the first half of 2026.
By CEO NA Editorial Staff
