en.Wedoany.com Reported - Wistron has opened its first US manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas. The 324,000-square-foot D1 factory currently operates two production lines, manufacturing the NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra superchip and the NVIDIA Vera Rubin superchip. This year, it is expanding capacity to produce tens of thousands of circuit boards with industry-leading technology each month.
At the factory opening ceremony, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang took the stage alongside Wistron Chairman Simon Lin. Huang stated that manufacturing is a vital pillar for every economy and every country. Building chip factories, packaging plants, and computer system factories across the United States enables the country to achieve true reindustrialization for the first time in a long while. The facility represents a $700 million investment in advanced US manufacturing and has created over 500 new jobs at the Texas plant, with plans to expand to 1,000 by the end of the year. NVIDIA has committed to manufacturing up to $500 billion worth of advanced AI platforms in the US, and the Wistron Fort Worth factory is one of the projects making this commitment a reality.
Simon Lin remarked that from the macro perspective of the entire AI world to communities and nations, this is a great vision, and people will enjoy a new era of AI life. Before construction began, Wistron designed the entire facility and fully simulated it in a digital twin built on NVIDIA's open platform—including the Nemotron and Cosmos frontier models, the Omniverse and Metropolis libraries, and open frameworks like PhysicsNeMo. This allowed engineers to virtually verify assembly line layouts, optimize production processes, and train workers before the actual factory systems went online.
The ceremony also included the unveiling of the first NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra superchip produced on-site, which Huang signed. Huang described the system built around this chip as the world's most powerful AI supercomputer, containing 1.5 million parts, weighing two tons, and valued at $4 million. During the event, Huang also gave separate interviews to Mike Allen of Axios and Lana Ferguson of The Dallas Morning News. Ferguson had previously reported on the groundbreaking ceremony for Coherent's new manufacturing facility in Sherman in June.
