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進入《TAIPEI TIMES》 Hon Hai predicts surge in its AI server business
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co chairman Young Liu, right, receives flowers from a shareholder at the company’s annual general meeting in New Taipei City’s Tucheng District yesterday. Photo: CNA
‘THREE-DIGIT GROWTH’: Hon Hai chairman Young Liu attributed the expected leap to ChatGPT, saying the company would continue to boost its market share
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Hon Hai Precision Industry Co （鴻海精密） predicts three-digit percentage growth for its artificial intelligence （AI） server business due to robust demand for AI products such as ChatGPT, chairman Young Liu （劉揚偉） said yesterday.
Hon Hai — known globally as Foxconn Technology Group （富士康科技集團） — is the world’s biggest contract electronics manufacturer and assembles devices for many international brands, most notably Apple Inc’s iPhone products.
It has also moved to diversify beyond electronics assembly, expanding into areas ranging from electric vehicles to semiconductors and servers.
“In 2022 alone, Hon Hai’s revenue for servers reached NT$1.1 trillion [US$35.75 billion] to obtain a 40 percent global market share,” Liu told an annual shareholders’ meeting in Taipei.
Hon Hai ranks first in global market share for mobile phones, PCs and servers, with the AI server market now “rising faster than everyone has expected,” Liu said.
He attributed the jump in demand to ChatGPT, the AI program that burst into the spotlight late last year with the ability to generate essays, poems and conversations from the briefest of prompts. Its runaway success has sparked a gold rush with billions of dollars of investment in the field.
“For the second half of this year, we may have three-digit growth, not two digits... We will continue to boost our market share for servers,” Liu said.
He said the company’s latest AI servers also use Nvidia Corp chips.
Nvidia is known for creating graphics chips long coveted by gamers, but which have become engines for the kind of complex processes involved in AI, known as accelerated computing.
Nvidia, cofounded by Taiwanese-American Jensen Huang （黃仁勳）, surged to a market value of more than US$1 trillion on Tuesday after its quarterly earnings report last week blew past expectations.
Despite the rosy future for AI, Hon Hai maintains a “flat” outlook for this year, Liu said, after its first-quarter profit plunged 56 percent on weakened demand due to a global downturn.
“The global tightening monetary [policies], coupled with tense geopolitics and the significant uncertainty of inflation have a relatively large impact on the economic outlook,” he said.
新聞來源：TAIPEI TIMES
