NVIDIA to Invest $500 Billion to Produce AI supercomputers

The US-based chip designer NVIDIA on Monday said that it was working with its manufacturing partners to design and build factories that, for the first time, will produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers entirely in the US, with an investment of $500 billion.

The manufacturing partners include Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Foxconn, Wistron, Amkor Technology and Siliconware Precision Industries Ltd (SPIL), Nvidia said.

NVIDIA has commissioned more than a million sq. ft. of manufacturing space to build and test NVIDIA Blackwell chips in Phoenix, Arizona, AI supercomputers in Texas, with Foxconn in Houston and with Wistron in Dallas. Mass production at both plants is expected to ramp up in the next 12-15 months.

The AI chip and supercomputer supply chain is complex and demands the most advanced manufacturing, packaging, assembly and test technologies. NVIDIA is partnering with Amkor and SPIL for packaging and testing operations in Arizona.

These world-leading companies are deepening their partnership with NVIDIA, growing their businesses while expanding their global footprint and hardening supply chain resilience. NVIDIA AI supercomputers are the engines of a new type of data center created for the sole purpose of processing AI factories that are the infrastructure powering a new AI industry.

Tens of “gigawatt AI factories” are expected to be built in the coming years and the 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.

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Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said that the engines of the world’s AI infrastructure are being built in the US for the first time and American manufacturing helps them better meet the incredible and growing demand for AI chips and supercomputers, strengthen their supply chain and boosts resiliency.

The company will utilise its advanced AI, robotics and digital twin technologies to design and operate the facilities, including NVIDIA Omniverse to create digital twins of factories and NVIDIA Isaac GR00T to build robots to automate manufacturing.