Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and executives from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) celebrated a major milestone in US chip production on Friday, unveiling the first Blackwell AI chip wafer manufactured on American soil at TSMC's Phoenix, Arizona facility.
The Blackwell chip, Nvidia's most powerful GPU for high-performance computing and AI workloads, has officially entered volume production in the US. This marks the first time such a critical, cutting-edge chip has been manufactured domestically in recent history.
The achievement is seen as a pivotal step in strengthening the US semiconductor supply chain and onshoring the production of the advanced technology required to power the global AI industry.
The Blackwell wafers are being produced at the TSMC Arizona fab, which is utilizing advanced four-nanometer process technology. The facility is slated to produce even more cutting-edge two-, three-, and A16 nanometer chips.
The move is expected to help meet the explosive, global demand for AI accelerators and reinforces America's leadership in the artificial intelligence era.
Nvidia stated that this milestone, which will eventually yield the ultra-high-performance Blackwell AI chips, is a testament to the decades-long partnership between the two companies and a key part of the vision to build the infrastructure for "the world's AI factories" in the United States.
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