NVIDIA on Monday unveiled a plan to build its most advanced Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer Chips within the United States, which marks a new milestone for the technical giant amidst intensifying global trade tension.
According to AFP, California -based chipmaker Arizona will begin production of its top level GPU known as Blackwell in TSMC features. In addition, new supercomputer plants in Texas are being developed through strategic partnership with manufacturing giant Foxconn and Wistron. Production on full scale is expected to increase in the next 12 to 15 months.
“The engines of the world’s AI Infrastructure are being built in the United States for the first time,” NVDia CEO Jensen Huang said in a blog post. “Adding American manufacturing helps us meet unreliable and growing demand for AI chips and supercomputers, strengthens our supply chain and increases our flexibility.”
This step indicates a comprehensive change in the production strategy of NVidia. The company aims to construct a price of half trillion dollars of AI infrastructure domesticly by the end of the decade through collaboration with TSMC, Foxconn, Wistron, Amkor, and Spil.
The initiative was also praised from the Biden administration. The White House quoted AFP as saying, “These industries are good for an American worker, good for the American economy, and good for American national security.”
This development comes when the United States tightens its restrictions on the export of high -end AI chips to China citing national security risks. Placing on the coast of production can give more and more inspection and control over the state -of -the -art technology used in defense, communication and consumer electronics.
At the same time, the semiconductor has become a focal point in the ongoing trade tension between the US and China. Speaking in Air Force One on Sunday, President Donald Trump confirmed the plan to implement the new tariff on chips.
Trump said, “Tariff on semiconductors … will not happen in a distant future.” “We want to make our chips and semiconductors and other things in our country.”
He said that specific tariff rates would be declared “next week”, while Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik indicated that they could “be effective in a month or two.”
