NVIDIA has taken a giant step in the 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 yr, 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 stated the newest platform was extra highly effective and translated to 25x much less price and vitality consumption in comparison with its predecessor. Now that Blackwell wafers could 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 current American historical past that the only most necessary chip is being manufactured right here in america by essentially the most superior fab, by TSMC, right here in america,” Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s founder and CEO, stated on the celebration occasion.
With NVIDIA’s Blackwell structure prepared for the amount manufacturing stage, the corporate remains to be engaged on increasing its manufacturing footprint throughout the US. Earlier this yr, NVIDIA stated it had plans to funnel half a trillion {dollars} in the direction of constructing AI infrastructure within the US by way of partnerships with TSMC, Foxconn and different firms.
