Nvidia starts producing its Blackwell AI chip at TSMC’s 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.

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.