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Nvidia supplier Wistron Corp. has opened a $700 million facility in Texas, joining the ranks of Taiwanese companies expanding in the U.S. as the Trump administration pushes to reshore manufacturing.
The factory in Fort Worth will produce Nvidia “superchips” and forms part of the $500 billion the U.S. company has committed to investing in advanced artificial-intelligence platforms in the U.S., Nvidia said in a blog post.
Building computer-system plants like the 324,000-square-foot Wistron site is helping the U.S. “really reindustrialize for the first time in a long time,” said Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang.
Taipei-listed Wistron is building Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell chip modules at the Texas facility, and will also make new Vera Rubin products there. Production is set to reach tens of thousands of boards a month later this year.
The companies showcased one of the GB300 superchip modules made at Fort Worth at 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 fellow Nvidia supplier Foxconn, Wistron is one of the Taiwanese electronics firms that built their empires manufacturing consumer gear for tech giants like Apple, but are now pivoting toward AI hardware.
The U.S.-based supply chain for Nvidia—spanning design in California, chip fabrication in Arizona, and assembly and testing in Texas—reflects the Trump administration’s drive to revive American high-tech manufacturing and diversify AI supply chains from Asian sites.
“Taiwan is my largest trading partner,” Huang said.
Last week, contract chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. announced an additional $100 billion investment in Arizona. Other Taiwanese manufacturers have also concentrated operations in hubs across Texas and neighboring Mexican border cities to assemble AI chip modules and servers for North American tech giants.
Shares of both Wistron and affiliated cloud-server manufacturer Wiwynn rose by the daily limit of 10% in Taipei on Wednesday.
Write to Yang Jie at [email protected] and Sherry Qin at [email protected]