Nvidia has announced plans to manufacture AI supercomputers in the United States for the first time.
Over the next four years, the company said that it aims to produce up to half a trillion dollars’ worth of AI infrastructure in the US, through manufacturing partnerships with TSMC, Foxconn, Wistron, Amkor and SPIL.
Production has already commenced at TSMC’s semiconductor facilities in Phoenix, Arizona, while Nvidia is also constructing supercomputer manufacturing plants in Texas.
Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive of Nvidia, said: “The engines of the world’s AI infrastructure are being built in the United States for the first time.”
“Adding American manufacturing helps us better meet the incredible and growing demand for AI chips and supercomputers, strengthens our supply chain, and boosts our resiliency.”
Nvidia describes its AI supercomputers as powering a new type of data centre designed specifically for AI. The company also claims that manufacturing these chips and systems domestically will generate hundreds of thousands of jobs.
The White House has claimed credit for the development, with a statement calling it “the Trump effect in action,” citing the administration’s emphasis on “US-based chip manufacturing as a priority as part of his [Trump’s] relentless pursuit of an American manufacturing renaissance.”
“Onshoring these industries is good for the American worker, good for the American economy, and good for American national security,” it added.
The announcement comes amid ongoing developments in global trade policy, as US President Donald Trump continues to impose tariffs worldwide.
Most recently, the President has introduced a temporary halt to planned tariffs on imports of smartphones, laptops, and other electronic goods and components.
However, he stressed on social media platform Truth Social that the administration is looking at moving tech into a different “bucket” of tariffs, with more announcements expected this week.
