The American company Nvidia He announced on Monday that for the first time he plans to manufacture in the United States his star chip for artificial intelligence (AI) last generation.
Blackwell, the most advanced Graphic Processing Unit (GPU), already began its production in the plants of the Taiwanese TSMC manufacturer in Arizona, while others are built in Texas in collaboration with Foxconn and Wistron, also from Taiwan.
Production is expected to increase in the next 12 to 15 months, according to the company based in Silicon Valley.
“The Motors of the Infrastructure of AI in the world are being built in the United States for the first time,” said Nvidia executive director Jensen Huang, in a company blog.
“Incorporating American manufacturing helps us better satisfy the incredible and growing demand for chips and IA supercomputers, strengthens our supply chain and increases our resilience,” he said.
Nvidia had a meteoric growth thanks to frenzy for AI, which depends on its microchips or graphics cards to boost any important technology from electric vehicles and smartphones to missile systems.
By the end of this decade, Nvidia plans to produce AI infrastructure worth up to half a billion dollars in the United States.
The White House said in a statement that “relocating these industries benefits the US worker, the US economy and national security.”
The United States government restricts the export of sophisticated chips from AI from China for national security concerns, while seeking to maintain manufacturing near the country to give a margin of control to designs and products.
Sunday, US President Donald Trump He said he would announce tariffs on semiconductors “during the next week“The Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, said they would probably be in force” in one or two months. “