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Shares in the chip maker rose following news of SoftBank’s planned investment and a possible stake for the U.S. government.
Below are major AI investments SoftBank has announced so far. On August 18, SoftBank announced a $2 billion equity investment in Intel, saying the deal reflected its belief that chip manufacturing and supply would expand further in the U.
Launched in January, the Stargate joint venture unites OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle to accelerate AI infrastructure investment in the US.
SoftBank Group Corp. is the buyer taking ownership of Foxconn Technology Group’s electric vehicle plant in Ohio, a move aimed at kick-starting the Japanese company’s $500 billion Stargate data center project with OpenAI and Oracle Corp.
Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank Group has reported a $2.9 billion profit for the April-June quarter, rebounding from a loss a year earlier, as its investments benefited from the craze for artificial intelligence.
Foxconn spent years promising electric vehicles would be built at the former Chevy Cruze factory. Now it will make AI servers.
Foxconn, in partnership with Japanese-owned SoftBank, will be building AI data center equipment within the former Lordstown GM Assembly plant. Reuters first reported the news on Monday. The work will be, as 21 News has previously reported, part of the Stargate project to build up to 16 artificial intelligence data centers across the US.
SoftBank, which has struggled to create a financial plan for Stargate, approached Foxconn to get the Apple supplier on board with its plan to build data centers and related infrastructure throughout the U.S., which led to the sale of the plant, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.