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FORT WORTH - Chipmaking giant Nvidia is betting big on North Texas being a key factor in the world's AI revolution; so much so its celebrity-status CEO Jensen Huang visited the region for the second time in as many months.
He spent Tuesday afternoon at Wistron's new manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, where Nvidia AI supercomputers will be built and tested as part of a greater effort to reshore high-tech manufacturing.
"We want to reindustrialize the United States and bring back, or onshore, manufacturing again," Huang told The Dallas Morning News in an exclusive interview before the event. "If you look at the last several years as the AI journey stated, we've created chip plants in the United States, packaging plants, testing companies, and here we are manufacturing and assembling these giant supercomputers."
Nvidia's AI supercomputers are the "engines of a new type of data center created for the sole purpose of processing artificial intelligence - AI factories that are the infrastructure powering a new AI industry," according to the company.
Huang was joined by Wistron Chairman Simon Lin; Fort Worth officials, business leaders including Hillwood Chairman Ross Perot Jr., who developed AllianceTexas; and community stakeholders for the grand opening ceremony of Wistron D1.
A theme of the event was "Powering the AI world from Texas."
During the ceremony, executives unveiled and signed the first Nvidia GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip built at the facility.
"Made in Texas, USA," Huang said as the crowd erupted with applause.
Wistron, one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers, announced last August plans to establish two AI supercomputer manufacturing facilities at Hillwood's AllianceTexas in Fort Worth and Denton County. At the time Wistron said the developments represented a $761 million investment.
The two sites will be a 27,000-acre industrial hub with the company's footprint spanning more than 1.1 million square feet, according to previous reporting. The facilities are expected to create more than 800 jobs.
"We've been known as the city of where the West begins, a city that's built by pioneers," Jessica Rogers, Fort Worth's director of economic development, told the crowd. "So, it seems fitting that you're here with us today. From railroads to cattle to oil and gas to aerospace and aviation, this community has continually embraced new opportunities and evolved with the times and today we are entering another frontier - one driven by artificial intelligence, advanced computing, and emerging technologies."
Nvidia - one of, if not the, most valuable companies in the world - boasts bringing the advanced manufacturing back to American facilities.
"Just as agriculture is a fundamental infrastructure of society, in the future these AI factories will be a fundamental infrastructure of society," Huang said during a fireside chat with Lin. "It's a very sensible thing. We have roads and agriculture and railroads. In the future, we'll have AI factories and the internet."
In mid-June, he took part in a groundbreaking ceremony at Coherent's facility in Sherman. It's the world's first and largest-volume production 6-inch indium phosphide fabrication plant.
The project, which has accumulated $650 million in investments, is set to double the size of the manufacturing production area to 140,000 square feet, and company leaders say the production capacity will quadruple.
Huang told The News there could be more investments to come for Nvidia in Texas.
"Texas is big," Huang said. "We're just starting north. Maybe we'll work our way south, I don't know. This is a great place."
This reporting is part of the Future of North Texas, a community-funded journalism initiative supported by the Commit Partnership, Communities Foundation of Texas, The Dallas Foundation, the Dallas Mavericks, the Dallas Regional Chamber, Deedie Rose, Lisa and Charles Siegel, the McCune-Losinger Family Fund, The Meadows Foundation, the Perot Foundation, the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas and the University of Texas at Dallas. The News retains full editorial control of this coverage.
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