Wistron opens $700M Texas AI chip factory, builds NVIDIA's latest superchips

On July 21, 2026, Wistron Corporation celebrated the grand opening of its D1 AI smart facility in Fort Worth, Texas—a $700 million（約1100億円） investment spanning approximately 324,000 square feet. The ceremony was led by Wistron Chairman Simon Lin and NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang, with attendees including Jessica Rogers, Director of the Economic Development Department for the City of Fort Worth, and Alexander Tah-ray Yui, Taiwan's Representative to the United States. The facility marks a historic milestone: it is the site where the first NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip was built and mass-produced in the United States, and it represents Wistron's first U.S.-based manufacturing facility.

The D1 facility is a key hub in Wistron's global AI infrastructure manufacturing network. It operates on NVIDIA accelerated computing and integrates NVIDIA's Nemotron and Cosmos open frontier models, along with Omniverse and Metropolis libraries, to employ digital twin technology in optimizing factory design, production workflows, and operational efficiency. According to Wistron Chairman Simon Lin, "The operation here is not typical manufacturing. It is new, very comprehensive, and high-tech. Right now we produce the NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip, and beyond, we are also going to produce the NVIDIA Vera Rubin Superchip here. 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."

Wistron established the Fort Worth facility to serve customers locally and produce NVIDIA's most advanced and cutting-edge products. The plant addresses rising demand for AI infrastructure by expanding domestic capacity to assemble and test NVIDIA AI systems, which can be integrated into NVIDIA DSX infrastructure—a common architecture and technology set designed to deploy and operate energy-efficient AI factories at scale. The new facility strengthens a critical upstream layer of the AI infrastructure supply chain by bringing advanced manufacturing capabilities to Texas, a state with an established ecosystem for logistics, talent recruitment, and advanced manufacturing.

Wistron's Fort Worth facility represents a significant expansion of AI chip manufacturing capacity within the United States. The timing aligns with growing demand for NVIDIA's most advanced superchips—the GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra and the incoming Vera Rubin—which are critical components of next-generation AI computing infrastructure. By establishing its first U.S. manufacturing site, Wistron responds directly to customer needs for domestic production while leveraging Texas's existing strengths in logistics, talent, and advanced manufacturing.

The facility's design reflects the sophistication of modern AI infrastructure manufacturing. Rather than traditional assembly, Wistron Chairman Simon Lin emphasized that "the operation here is not typical manufacturing. It is new, very comprehensive, and high-tech." The plant integrates NVIDIA's own software stack—accelerated computing, open frontier models (Nemotron and Cosmos), and digital libraries (Omniverse and Metropolis)—alongside digital twin technology. This approach allows Wistron to model and optimize factory workflows before physical implementation, reducing waste and improving precision in the assembly and testing of complex AI systems.

The grand opening ceremony, attended by NVIDIA leadership and U.S. and Taiwan government officials, underscores the geopolitical and economic significance of domestic AI chip manufacturing. By expanding upstream assembly and testing capacity on U.S. soil, Wistron and NVIDIA strengthen the AI infrastructure supply chain at a critical moment when demand for advanced computing systems is accelerating globally. Within the next couple of years, the Fort Worth facility is positioned to become one of the most important manufacturing hubs in Wistron's global network.