NVIDIA displays its first Blackwell wafer produced in the US (19459000)
has taken a major step in strengthening its domestic chip production by revealing the first Blackwell Wafer produced in the US. The wafer, the base material of NVIDIA’s AI chip, was assembled in TSMC’s semiconductor manufacturing facility located in Phoenix, Arizona.
NVIDIA announced its Blackwell platform in the last year. It boasted a goal to revolutionize the AI industry by partnering with tech giants such as Amazon, Google, OpenAI, and others. NVIDIA claimed that the latest platform is more powerful, and has a 25x reduction in cost and energy consumption when compared to its predecessor. NVIDIA is now better protected from geopolitical tensions and ever-changing tariffs, as Blackwell wafers are made at TSMC.
“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,” Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s founder and CEO, said at the celebration event.
With NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture ready for the volume production stage, the company is still working on expanding its manufacturing footprint across the US. Earlier this year, NVIDIA said it had plans to funnel half a trillion dollars towards building AI infrastructure in the US through partnerships with TSMC, Foxconn and other companies.
