Nvidia to build AI servers in the USA in future
Foxconn and Wistron are building US factories to manufacture Nvidia servers. The plans are old, but make the US President happy.
Nvidia's GB200-NVL72 server will also be produced in the USA in the future.
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An Nvidia announcement has received a lot of attention in recent days: together with its partners Foxconn and Wistron, Nvidia will be building AI servers in the USA in future. Over the next four years, the servers built there are expected to reach a sales value of "up to" 500 billion US dollars. Production in the USA is scheduled to start in 12 to 15 months.
The chip contract manufacturer TSMC is now producing the necessary Blackwell GPUs in its new US semiconductor plant in Arizona. TSMC recently completed the latter – construction began under the presidency of Joe Biden, who wanted to attract foreign chip manufacturers with the US Chips Act.
However, numerous other components, including semiconductors, are likely to continue to come from Asia. Most low-cost chips, such as power supply controllers (PMICs), are produced there.
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Factories planned since 2024
Foxconn and Wistron have been planning to expand their US sites since 2024. The board of Foxconn's parent company Hon Hau agreed to invest 25 million US dollars in December. According to a report in Taiwan's Digitimes, the explicit focus back then was on the production capacity of AI servers in the Texan city of Houston.
Wistron purchased new land in Dallas in November 2024, but did not reveal the purpose at the time. According to media reports from Taiwan, the total investment is said to amount to 142 million US dollars.
The server factories are particularly inexpensive compared to the semiconductor plants costing billions. US President Donald Trump nevertheless used the announcement to share the"very big and exciting news" via his Truth Social platform. He had apparently misunderstood the announcement and wrote about investments amounting to 500 billion US dollars. The Truth Social post has since been deleted.
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