The move sees the graphics giant working with key manufacturing partners to build more than a million square feet of space for Blackwell chip testing in Arizona and AI supercomputer assembly in Texas. Troubled Chipzilla’s long-time rival has clearly had enough of relying on Asian supply lines.

The Blackwell silicon is already in production at TSMC’s Phoenix fabs, while supercomputer facilities are being kitted out with Foxconn in Houston and Wistron in Dallas. Nvidia expects mass production to kick in across both Texan plants in the next 12 to 15 months.

Packaging and testing won’t be left to chance either. Nvidia is locking in deals with Amkor and SPIL to handle those operations in Arizona, ensuring its kit doesn’t leave the country once it rolls off the line.

Over the next four years, Nvidia claims it will produce as much as half a trillion dollars’ worth of AI infrastructure stateside, working alongside TSMC, Foxconn, Wistron, Amkor, and SPIL. The idea is to grow the tech base while also making the supply chain a bit less wobbly.

Nvidia reckons these "gigawatt AI factories" will drive the next phase of its data centre empire, which now revolves entirely around artificial intelligence. The company insists these sprawling setups will create hundreds of thousands of jobs and inject trillions into the US economy in the long term.

Nvidia chief Jensen Huang said, “The engines of the world’s AI infrastructure are being built in the United States for the first time. Adding American manufacturing helps us better meet the incredible and growing demand for AI chips and supercomputers, strengthens our supply chain and boosts our resiliency.”

The firm will lean on its own AI, robotics, and digital twin tools to run the whole thing, using NVIDIA Omniverse to simulate the factories and its Isaac GR00T robots to handle manufacturing grunt work.