Bull and Foxconn begin European manufacturing of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 AI supercomputers
Bull and Foxconn announced June 17 that they will manufacture NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems in Europe as part of their partnership. Components will be produced and tested at Foxconn facilities in the Czech Republic, then assembled, integrated, and fully validated at Bull's factory in Angers, France, with commercialization under the Bull brand.
The Vera Rubin NVL72 is NVIDIA's latest-generation rack-scale AI supercomputer, packing 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs into a single liquid-cooled rack connected by sixth-generation NVLink fabric. It delivers 3.6 exaFLOPS of NVFP4 inference throughput and five times the per-GPU inference performance of the prior Blackwell GB200, at one-tenth the cost per million tokens for inference.
For European AI factory operators and cloud providers, this announcement directly addresses sovereign compute concerns post-export-ban. Manufacturing within Europe with Bull's software and deployment expertise and Foxconn's industrial scale creates a resilient alternative to US-only supply chains. The Czech Republic + France manufacturing footprint fits the broader pattern of European infrastructure regionalization driven by geopolitical fragmentation in the AI stack.
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- globenewswire.com
“Systems will be manufactured and initially tested at Foxconn's facilities in the Czech Republic, before being assembled, integrated and fully validated at Bull's factory in Angers, France”
- techtimes.com
“The NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 delivers 3.6 exaFLOPS of NVFP4 inference throughput and 50 petaFLOPS of inference performance per GPU — five times the per-GPU inference performance of Blackwell GB200, at one-tenth the cost per million tokens”
- finance.yahoo.com
“For NVIDIA, moving Vera Rubin NVL72 manufacturing into Europe is about where its AI factory stack gets built, tying its platform to a made-in-Europe supply chain for customers who care about data residency and export rules”