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Foxconn drops VMware, adopts hyperconverged upstart Arcrfra for workloads including AI

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Simon Sharwood

Simon<br>Sharwood

APAC Editor

APAC Editor

Published<br>mon 27 Jul 2026 // 01:07 UTC

ASIA IN BRIEF Taiwanese mega-manufacturer Foxconn has adopted Singaporean hyperconverged infrastructure vendor (HCI) Arcrfra for some GPU virtualization workloads and to replace VMware in some remote offices.<br>Arcfra launched in 2024 and the next year earned a place on analyst firm Gartner’s Market Guide for Full-Stack HCI Software. Last week, Arcfra launched an update to its Neutree model-as-a-service platform, adding native GPU virtualization and model governance capabilities. The company said Foxconn has adopted Neutree “to modernize distributed factory infrastructure and improve how AI models were delivered, managed, and observed across environments.”<br>The Taiwanese giant has also used Neutree to “accelerate model deployment, improve operational visibility, and build a scalable foundation for future AI and intelligent manufacturing workloads.”

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Foxconn considers AI a critical part of its plans: The Register last year heard chairman Young Liu hail generative AI’s potential to vastly improve the company’s factories.

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The Register asked Arcfra to detail its relationship with Foxconn and the HCI upstart pointed us to this case study that states “Foxconn's global branch companies relied on traditional VMware virtualization for their IT systems. This legacy setup was becoming increasingly difficult to manage and scale across a distributed global footprint [and] led to high construction costs and a significant increase in operations and maintenance overhead.”<br>Foxconn apparently deployed Arcfra “across its branch factories in Mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and North America” and uses the Singaporean platform for critical intranet, manufacturing management, ERP and production line management systems. Arcfra also hosts Foxconn's DevTest environments and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure workloads.<br>“The legacy VMware virtualization + SAN storage architecture was successfully replaced, providing a modern, scalable foundation ready to accommodate future business growth and technology adoption,” Arcfra claims.<br>The Register asked Foxconn for further information about its decision, but has not received a response at the time of publication.<br>VMware’s owner, Broadcom, changed strategy to target large entities like Foxconn. Broadcom says the overwhelming majority of its target customers have adopted its flagship Cloud Foundation suite, but The Register has also noted many big-name dissenters, among them Tesco, Western Union, Allstate Insurance – and now Foxconn.<br>Better news for Broadcom<br>In better news for Broadcom, the chip design side of the business has struck a $200 billion deal with Samsung’s memory and foundry businesses.<br>“On the memory front, Samsung and Broadcom plan to pursue a strategic collaboration for the supply of industry-leading memory solutions, including High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), supporting Broadcom’s next-generation AI accelerators,” states Samsung’s announcement of the deal. “In foundry, the companies’ collaboration focuses on Samsung’s 2-nanometer (nm) and below process technologies for Broadcom’s products, including Wireless Broadband Communications (WBC) solutions. The collaboration is expected to extend to advanced packaging technologies built on Samsung’s 2nm process, including 2.3D and 2.5D integration, to enable higher-performance and more power-efficient AI and networking silicon.”

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“By combining Samsung’s memory and foundry expertise with Broadcom’s AI and connectivity leadership, we aim to continue to deliver technologies that power the next generation of AI infrastructure,” said Charlie Kawwas, the president of Broadcom’s Semiconductor Solutions Group.<br>Broadcom has a huge order book for custom accelerators and needs foundry capacity to build those products and its other offerings. Given the global shortage of fabrication capacity, and Samsung’s status as arguably the world’s second-most-sophisticated fab operator, Broadcom has every reason to be happy it has secured access to the manufacturing resources it needs.<br>Infosys names next CEO<br>Indian tech services giant Infosys last week named Ashiss Kumar Dash as its next CEO.<br>Infosys says Dash is currently “global head for a business portfolio that comprises over 12...