NVIDIA has unveiled its first Blackwell wafer manufactured in the United States, assembled at TSMC’s semiconductor facility in Phoenix, Arizona, marking a significant step in strengthening domestic chip production.
The wafer is the base material for NVIDIA’s next-generation AI chips, part of the Blackwell platform announced last year. Tech companies like Amazon, Google, and OpenAI have committed to adopting the architecture, which NVIDIA claims is more powerful and provides 25 times lower cost and energy consumption compared to its predecessor.
By manufacturing the wafers in the U.S., NVIDIA can better insulate itself from evolving tariffs and geopolitical tensions. Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s founder and CEO, highlighted the significance of this achievement, stating, “It’s the very first time in recent American history that the single most important chip is being manufactured here in the United States by the most advanced fab, by TSMC, here in the United States.”
With the Blackwell architecture ready for volume production, NVIDIA is working to expand its manufacturing footprint in the U.S. The company earlier detailed plans to invest half a trillion dollars to build AI infrastructure in the country through partnerships with TSMC, Foxconn, and other companies.
