Nvidia starts producing its Blackwell AI chip at TSMC’s Arizona plant
- Nvidia has started producing its Blackwell AI chips at TSMC’s Arizona plant, marking a significant move to bring chip production stateside.
- TSMC, the world’s largest chipmaker, has invested $100 billion in US chipmaking and plans to produce chips using 2nm technology by the end of the decade.
- Nvidia is teaming up with Foxconn and Wistron to build supercomputer production plants in Texas, with mass production expected within 12-15 months.
- The partnership aims to create hundreds of thousands of jobs and drive trillions of dollars in economic security over the coming decades.
- Blackwell chips use TSMC’s custom 4NP process, but Nvidia hasn’t specified which specific Blackwell chip models are being produced at the Arizona plant.
Nvidia has brought some of its chip production stateside. On Monday, Nvidia announced that it has started producing its Blackwell AI GPUs at TSMC’s plant in Phoenix, Arizona, while companies within the state package and test them.
TSMC, or Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., is the world’s biggest chipmaker and announced a $100 billion investment in US chipmaking last month. It began producing chips using the 4nm process at its Arizona factory in January and has plans to make chips with the more efficient 2nm technology by the end of the decade.
Nvidia doesn’t say which Blackwell chips it has started producing at TSMC’s plant and whether it includes the latest Blackwell Ultra GB300 chip it revealed earlier this year. Blackwell chips use TSMC’s custom 4NP process, according to Nvidia’s website.
Additionally, Nvidia announced that it’s teaming up with the electronics manufacturers Foxconn and Wistron to build supercomputer production plants in Texas. The company says it expects mass production at the two plants to “ramp up” over the next 12 to 15 months.
“Manufacturing NVIDIA AI chips and supercomputers for American AI factories is expected to create hundreds of thousands of jobs and drive trillions of dollars in economic security over the coming decades,” Nvidia says in its announcement.