Nvidia supplier Wistron has opened a $700 million plant in Texas as Washington bangs the drum for homegrown AI kit.
According to Reuters, the Taiwanese outfit has joined the queue of manufacturers expanding in the US while the Trump administration pushes to drag production onshore.
The Fort Worth factory will produce Nvidia superchips and forms part of the $500 billion Nvidia says it will spend on advanced AI platforms in the US.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said building computer-system plants like Wistron’s 324,000-square-foot site is helping the US “really reindustrialise for the first time in a long time.”
Taipei-listed Wistron is building Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell chip modules at the Texas facility and will produce Vera Rubin kit there next.
Production is expected to reach tens of thousands of boards a month later this year.
The companies waved around one of the GB300 superchip modules made at Fort Worth during an opening ceremony on Tuesday.
“We’re producing them like phones… cranking them out in volume because the world needs all of these machines to drive the intelligence infrastructure,” Huang said.
Like Nvidia supplier Foxconn, Wistron is one of the Taiwanese electronics firms that built empires making consumer gear for tech giants such as the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple.
Now those firms are pivoting towards AI hardware, where the margins are better than churning out shiny rectangles for Job’s Mob.
The US-based Nvidia supply chain stretches from design in California to chip fabrication in Arizona, then assembly and testing in Texas.
That setup fits the Trump administration’s plan to revive American high-tech manufacturing and reduce dependence on Asian AI supply chains.
“Taiwan is my largest trading partner,” Huang said.
Last week, contract chip maker TSMC announced another $100 billion investment in Arizona. Other Taiwanese manufacturers have clustered around Texas and neighbouring Mexican border cities to assemble AI chip modules and servers for North American tech giants.
