The Taiwan-based manufacturer's Fort Worth facility is the first U.S. site to mass-produce Nvidia's GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip
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Wistron Corporation stock climbed 9.7% on Wednesday after the Taiwan-based technology manufacturer opened its first U.S. facility dedicated to assembling AI servers on behalf of Nvidia $NVDA. The $700 million plant, located in Fort Worth, Texas, covers 324,000 square feet and marks the first time Nvidia's GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip has been built and mass-produced on U.S. soil.
The facility, called the D1 AI smart facility, will also produce Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin Superchip, the company said. Wistron said the Fort Worth plant is scaling up this year to produce tens of thousands of computing boards per month, according to Reuters.
The opening ceremony on Tuesday was led by Wistron Chairman Simon Lin and Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang. Fort Worth city officials and Taiwan's Representative to the United States, Alexander Tah-ray Yui, were also in attendance.
"In the next couple of years, this location will be one of the most important, as we build AI infrastructure here in the United States," Simon Lin said in a statement.
Nvidia has committed to manufacturing up to $500 billion in advanced AI platforms in the United States, and the Fort Worth factory is part of that effort, the company said. Jensen Huang said at the ceremony that "the largest infrastructure buildout in history is underway" and that Nvidia and Wistron are "restoring U.S. advanced manufacturing capacity in Texas, creating skilled jobs and strengthening America's AI supply chain."
The facility has brought more than 500 positions to the Fort Worth area so far, and Nvidia says the headcount is on course to reach 1,000 by year's end, according to Reuters. Across the United States, Nvidia's manufacturing partners — among them Wistron, TSMC $TSM, and Foxconn — now operate in 43 states and are projected to add roughly $485 billion to U.S. GDP in 2026, according to CNBC.
Before construction began, Wistron designed and simulated the entire facility using a digital twin built on Nvidia's platform, including Nemotron and Cosmos models and Omniverse and Metropolis libraries, according to Nvidia. That allowed engineers to validate assembly line layouts and train workers virtually before any systems went live.
Wistron's Texas expansion is part of a broader trend of Taiwanese technology manufacturers building out U.S. production capacity. Nvidia announced plans to invest around $150 billion a year in Taiwan and break ground on a new Taipei headquarters, while also deepening its U.S. manufacturing commitments through partners including Wistron, TSMC, and Foxconn.
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