Nvidia supplier Wistron launches $700 million Texas factory for AI system production

By Wen-Yee Lee

TAIPEI, July 22 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s Wistron, a supplier to Nvidia, launched a $700 million ‌manufacturing facility in Texas on Tuesday to ‌produce the U.S. chipmaker’s latest AI systems, as Taiwanese electronics ​makers expand U.S. production to meet soaring demand for AI infrastructure.

Here are a few details:

• The Fort Worth facility manufactures Nvidia’s GB300 Grace Blackwell ‌Ultra Superchip. Nvidia ⁠CEO Jensen Huang has described the AI system built around the product as “the ⁠most powerful AI supercomputer in the world.”

• Wistron said the site is where Nvidia’s first GB300 ​Grace Blackwell ​Ultra Superchip was ​built and mass-produced in ‌the United States.

• The factory will also manufacture Nvidia’s next-generation Vera Rubin Superchip, Wistron said.

• The factory is expected to scale up production this year to manufacture tens of thousands of computing ‌boards per month, according ​to Nvidia.

• The factory has ​created more than ​500 jobs, Nvidia said, adding that ‌it is on track to ​expand its ​workforce to 1,000 employees by the end of the year.

• Nvidia said Wistron’s Fort Worth ​plant forms ‌part of the $500 billion U.S. investment commitment ​it announced in 2025.

(Reporting by Wen-Yee Lee; ​Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)

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