Nvidia has begun making chips in Arizona
AI leader also to build supercomputer in Texas
By: Russ Willes
Arizona Republic
USA Today Network
..... Artificial-intelligence stalwart Nvidia is working with partners in Arizona and Texas to manufacture chips and build factories that, for the first time, will produce the company's supercomputer entirely in the United States.
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The AI leader said it has commissioned more than 1 million square feet of manufacturing space to make and test its Blackwell chips at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company plaint in Arizona and at two Texas factories for making AI supercomputers.
..... The advanced chips, named after statistician and mathematician David Blackwell, feature high performance and energy efficiency and can be sued in a broad range of applications. of the 1 million square feet, the company didn't say how much space it is suing at the TSMC site in Phoenix.
..... Nvidia said it has started production of the Blackwell chips at the sprawling TSMC facility that also supplies semiconductors for Apple, MD and other corporate clients.
..... AMD also announced a production milestone at the TSMC Phoenix complex, including an advanced chip code-named "Venice" that will be launched this year. [2025]
..... Nvidia said its AI supercomputers are the engines of a new type of data center cerated to process artificial intelligence. The company said an unspecified number of "gigawatt AI factories" will be built in coming years, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs and driving trillions of dollars of economic activity in coming decades.
..... The company described the supply chain for supercomputers and chips as complex and one that demands the most advanced manufacturing, packaging, assemble and testing technologies. Nvidia is partnering with Chandler, Arizona-based Amkor Technology to package and test its Arizona-made chips.
..... Nvidia, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is building the Texas supercomputer manufacturing plants with Foxconn in Houston and Wistron in Dallas. Within the next four years, Nvidia said it pans to produce up to $500 billion of AI infrastructure in the U.S. through partnerships with TSMC, Foxconn, Wistron, Amkor and others.