Amid Trump tariff chaos, Nvidia launches AI chip production on US soil
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Summary
US multinational Nvidia has announced it will start manufacturing AI chips and building supercomputers on US soil, using more than one million square feet of space in Arizona and Texas.
The company’s CEO, Jensen Huang, said the move, which sees AI chip production leave Taiwan for the first time, would help to meet rising demand and strengthen the supply chain.
The switch also coincides with increased geopolitical tensions with China and the Trump administration’s inclination towards domestic manufacturing; it comes just days after Nvidia secured an exemption from tariffs on its H20 chip by promising to invest in US AI data centres.
US Customs and Border Protection recently flagged that tariffs would not apply to smartphones, computers and semiconductors, but this decision was quickly reversed by the Trump administration.
