TAIPEI, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn,

the world's largest contract electronics maker, reported on

Wednesday a 17% rise in third-quarter profit that beat market

forecasts on sustained strength in demand for artificial

intelligence servers.

Net profit for the July-September period for Nvidia's ( NVDA )

biggest server maker and Apple's ( AAPL ) top iPhone

assembler was T$57.67 billion ($1.89 billion), versus an LSEG

consensus estimate of T$50.4 billion.

($1 = 30.5930 Taiwan dollars)

(Reporting by Wen-Yee Lee and Ben Blanchard; Editing by

Muralikumar Anantharaman)