Apple plans to use its own Apple Silicon processors for its AI servers, which will be used, among other things, to power its Apple Intelligence services in the data center, reports Nikkei. The company has approached Foxconn and Lenovo to build the machines and has specifically asked them to make the servers in Taiwan. While one of Apple's reasons for assembling these machines in Taiwan is to reduce its reliance on China, another is to tap into the talent and R&D resources that Foxconn leverages for its Nvidia-based AI servers.
Apple is exploring the production of AI servers in Taiwan at Foxconn's facilities to bolster its computing abilities for new generative AI features across its devices. However, Foxconn, Apple's primary manufacturing partner, also happens to be the world's largest maker of AI servers, primarily making machines based on Nvidia's GPUs, such as the H100 and H200. For now, Foxconn's capacity in Taiwan is fairly limited, as the company is gearing up to start volume production of GB200-based machines featuring the Blackwell architecture. This is reportedly one of the reasons why Apple wants to produce its AI machines in Taiwan: to leverage the experience that Foxconn has gained while working on Nvidia projects.
