On Oct. 17, executives and employees gathered at TSMC Arizona to commemorate the production of the first NVIDIA Blackwell wafer made on American soil. These highly advanced chips are manufactured using a custom TSMC N4P process and will be foundational infrastructure as AI usage proliferates in the coming years.

David Keller, CEO of TSMC North America, told the crowd that thousands of Blackwell chips will be rolling off the manufacturing line in Arizona, adding that the surge of AI demand was “one of the key drivers of expansion in Arizona and globally.”

Jensen Huang, president and CEO of NVIDIA, describes AI as “the most transformative invention in the history of mankind” and that the technology will be used by every industry in the near future. To meet this demand, NVIDIA plans to sp

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