NVIDIA and TSMC Unveil First U.S.-Made Blackwell Chip Wafer as AI Chip Manufacturing Goes On-Shore
It’s the first time in recent American history that a single most important chip is being manufactured in the US by the most advanced fab, TSMC.
NVIDIA and TSMC Unveil First U.S.-Made Blackwell Chip Wafer as AI Chip Manufacturing Goes On-Shore
South-California-based NVIDIA, in conjunction with Taiwanese foundry TSMC, announced the production of the first wafer—the basic‐substrate for its next‐gen “Blackwell” chips architecture—that was manufactured at TSMC’s semiconductor manufacturing facility situated in Phoenix (Arizona USA). The event was marked by the appearance of NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang at TSMC’s Phoenix/fab site. He describes the milestone as “the world’s most important chip” being made in the U.S. for the first time in recent memory. TSMC’s Arizona facility is announced to support advanced process nodes (2 nm, 3 nm, 4 nm) as well as “A16” class chips, aimed at AI, telecommunications and high-performance computing applications. While manufacture of the wafer is a major first step, the full chip assembly, packaging and test operations still need to scale. Observers note that this is not yet full mass production of fully packaged chips made entirely in the U.S. It's worth noting that NVIDIA first introduced its Blac…
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