Blackwell production already underway in Arizona with server manufacturing coming to Texas within 15 months

Nvidia wants to build and sell up to half a trillion US dollars of American-made AI supercomputer equipment over the next four years, with the help of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, aka TSMC, and its partners.

The pledge means Nvidia will begin production of its latest generation of Blackwell accelerators and systems in the United States within the next 12-15 months, or so it hopes. It also assumes there will be sufficient buyers, domestic or otherwise, of this half-a-trillion-bucks of made-in-America gear over the coming years.

The corporation's promise comes as American companies wrestle with the Trump regime's on-again, off-again tariffs on foreign imports.

"The engines of the world's AI infrastructure are being built in the United States for the first time," CEO Jensen Huang said in a canned statement Monday. "Adding American manufacturing helps us better meet the incredible and growing demand for AI chips and ...