NVIDIA shows off its first Blackwell wafer manufactured in the US
NVIDIA took a big step towards strengthening domestic chip production and revealed the first one. Blackwell wafer Made in the USA. The hardware company assembled the wafer, the base material for NVIDIA’s AI chips, at TSMC’s semiconductor manufacturing facility in Phoenix, Arizona.
NVIDIA announced Blackwell platform Last year, Amazon boasted of its goal to revolutionize the AI industry through tech giants like Google, OpenAI and others committed to embracing next-generation architecture. NVIDIA said the latest platform is more powerful and provides 25 times less cost and energy consumption compared to the previous platform. Now that Blackwell wafers can be made at the TSMC factory, NVIDIA can better insulate itself from the ever-evolving technology. tariff status and geopolitical tensions.
“For the first time in recent American history, the most important chip is being manufactured right here in the United States by TSMC, the most advanced fab in the United States,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said at the celebratory event.
As NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture is ready for mass production, the company is still trying to expand its manufacturing footprint across the US. Earlier this year, NVIDIA announced that it planned to pour half a trillion dollars into construction. artificial intelligence infrastructure In the US, through partnerships with TSMC, Foxconn and other companies.
