NVIDIA has taken a giant step in direction of strengthening its home chip manufacturing, revealing the primary Blackwell wafer made within the US. The {hardware} firm assembled the wafer, which is the bottom materials for NVIDIA’s AI chips, in TSMC’s semiconductor manufacturing facility in Phoenix, Arizona.
NVIDIA revealed its Blackwell platform final 12 months, boasting a objective of revolutionizing the AI business by way of tech giants like Amazon, Google, OpenAI and others who already dedicated to adopting the next-gen structure. NVIDIA mentioned the most recent platform was extra highly effective and translated to 25x much less value and vitality consumption in comparison with its predecessor. Now that Blackwell wafers might be made on the TSMC plant, NVIDIA can higher insulate itself from the ever-evolving tariff state of affairs and geopolitical tensions.
“It’s the very first time in latest American historical past that the only most vital chip is being manufactured right here in the US by essentially the most superior fab, by TSMC, right here in the US,” Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s founder and CEO, mentioned on the celebration occasion.
With NVIDIA’s Blackwell structure prepared for the quantity manufacturing stage, the corporate continues to be engaged on increasing its manufacturing footprint throughout the US. Earlier this 12 months, NVIDIA mentioned it had plans to funnel half a trillion {dollars} in direction of constructing AI infrastructure within the US by way of partnerships with TSMC, Foxconn and different corporations.
