Nvidia teams up with Foxconn and Taiwan-based Wistron for factories in Houston and Dallas, respectively. The news comes as Trump has said repeatedly he plans to tariff foreign-made chips.
As Trump prepares to tariff foreign-made semiconductors, Nvidia is going out of its way to announce plans for two new Texas factories focused on manufacturing parts for AI supercomputers.
Nvidia will build the first factory in Houston with iPhone supplier Foxconn. The second one will be in Dallas, built with the help of Wistron, a contract electronics manufacturer from Taiwan.
The resulting facilities will span “more than a million square feet of manufacturing space” with the goal of both building AI supercomputers and testing chips from Taiwan’s TSMC, which is developing six semiconductor fabs in Arizona.
“Mass production at both plants is expected to ramp up in the next 12-15 months,” Nvidia said in Monday’s announcement.
