NVIDIA Comes Home with “Made in the USA” Supercomputer
April 15, 2025
By Rebecca Grant: For the first time, American powerhouse NVIDIA will build supercomputers entirely in the USA. The advanced Blackwell semi-conductor chips will be made in Phoenix, Arizona, and the supercomputers will be assembled at a new facility in Texas.
“All necessary permits will be expedited and quickly delivered to NVIDIA, as they will to all companies committing to be part of the Golden Age of America!” President Donald J. Trump said on Truth Social on April 15.
“Within the next four years, NVIDIA plans to produce up to half a trillion dollars of AI infrastructure in the United States through partnerships with TSMC, Foxconn, Wistron, Amkor, and SPIL,” NVIDIA stated, “growing their businesses while expanding their global footprint and hardening supply chain resilience.” Scaling to mass production will take at least a year.
The White House called it part of an American manufacturing renaissance. Nvidia’s move comes on top of the January Stargate initiative for $500 billion in AI infrastructure. The new supercomputers will serve as the engines for AI factories, “a new type of data center created for the sole purpose of processing artificial intelligence,” according to NVIDIA.
NVIDIA was already building a supercomputer in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, targeted for full deployment in 2026. As with the US project, NVIDIA’s Taiwan supercomputer “will integrate with NVIDIA technologies, such as NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac robotics platforms for AI and digital twins technologies to help transform manufacturing processes.”
The decision by NVIDIA comes as the AI Diffusion Rule, a last-minute move to restrict chip sales from the Biden Administration, unravels. NVIDIA will continue to sell its H20 chip globally, including in China; the H20 has been modified to reduce performance and comply with existing chip export controls. Strong international sales of non-restricted chips are essential to US companies’ revenue growth and long-term AI dominance.