GoKawiilIn a splashy move that signals that Taiwan remains irreplaceable to the AI industry’s short-term and long-term goals, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced Wednesday that his chip company will invest $150 billion a year to make sure Taiwan remains at the “epicenter” of the “AI revolution.”
“This is where the chips come, packaging comes, this is where the systems are made, this is where AI supercomputers were created,” Huang said. “The number of partners we work with here in Taiwan, incredible.”
As Reuters reported, the substantial investments will be used to create a new Taiwan headquarters for Nvidia, which Huang expects will drive so much AI innovation that the partnership will cement Taiwan as “the world’s tech manufacturing hub for a long time.” That ambitious project will be operational by 2030, Nvidia anticipates, after breaking ground this year.
“Four years ago, five years ago, Nvidia was spending about 10, 15 billion dollars a year in Taiwan,” Huang said at a ceremony celebrating the launch of the company’s new Taiwan base. “Now we’re spending 100, going to 150 billion dollars in Taiwan each year.”
Nvidia is currently the world’s most valuable company, making history in 2025 after becoming the first company to reach a $5 trillion market capitalization. And Huang bragged that the Taiwan base will make sure Nvidia is “worth even more in three to five years.”
But Huang has so far not explained how Nvidia’s plans in Taiwan may potentially conflict with Donald Trump’s push to make the US the world’s AI hub.
Nvidia did not immediately respond to Ars’ request to comment on this seeming tension.
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Last April, Nvidia started producing AI chips on US soil for the first time. The move seemed designed to appease Trump, who had been pressuring US firms to increase domestic manufacturing, a top priority of his AI Action Plan.