Nvidia starts producing its Blackwell AI chip at TSMC’s Arizona plant

Nvidia has brought immoderate of its spot accumulation stateside. On Monday, Nvidia announced that it has started producing its Blackwell AI GPUs astatine TSMC’s works successful Phoenix, Arizona, portion companies wrong the authorities bundle and trial them.

TSMC, oregon Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., is the world’s biggest chipmaker and announced a $100 cardinal investment successful US chipmaking past month. It began producing chips utilizing the 4nm process astatine its Arizona factory successful January and has plans to marque chips with the much businesslike 2nm exertion by the extremity of the decade. 

Nvidia doesn’t accidental which Blackwell chips it has started producing astatine TSMC’s works and whether it includes the latest Blackwell Ultra GB300 chip it revealed earlier this year. Blackwell chips usage TSMC’s customized 4NP process, according to Nvidia’s website.

Additionally, Nvidia announced that it’s teaming up with the electronics manufacturers Foxconn and Wistron to physique supercomputer accumulation plants successful Texas. The institution says it expects wide accumulation astatine the 2 plants to “ramp up” implicit the adjacent 12 to 15 months.

“Manufacturing NVIDIA AI chips and supercomputers for American AI factories is expected to make hundreds of thousands of jobs and thrust trillions of dollars successful economical information implicit the coming decades,” Nvidia says successful its announcement.