Jensen Huang flew to Fort Worth last week to cut the ribbon on a 324,000-square-foot factory that Wistron built in under a year. The price tag: $700 million. The product coming off the line: Nvidia's GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip boards, tens of thousands of them every month.
The facility, called D1, is Wistron's first factory on American soil. The Taiwanese electronics manufacturer announced the $761 million Texas investment back in October 2025, Fort Worth beat out competing sites in August of that year, and by July 2026 boards were already shipping. Going from groundbreaking announcement to active production in roughly nine months is genuinely fast for a plant of this scale.
Huang positioned the project as part of a wider push to rebuild American industrial capacity around advanced AI hardware. Wistron used Nvidia's own Omniverse software to plan and operate the facility, creating a digital twin of the physical plant before a single wall went up. The factory is expected to support around 1,000 jobs before the end of 2026, and Wistron's stock responded immediately, jumping roughly 9.7% on the news of the opening.
Where this fits in the bigger onshoring picture
Wistron joins TSMC, Foxconn, and a growing list of Taiwanese manufacturers putting down roots in the American South and Southwest. The distinction worth noting: Wistron isn't fabricating raw silicon. It assembles the finished superchip boards that slot into AI servers, which puts it at a different point in the supply chain, one that's become increasingly strategic as demand for AI compute explodes. Nvidia has publicly committed to channeling up to $500 billion into U.S. AI infrastructure, with Foxconn reportedly eyeing a similar facility in Houston.
For anyone tracking the intersection of AI hardware and digital assets, the numbers here matter. Nvidia's GPUs remain central to both AI workloads and crypto mining rigs, and the overlap between AI compute infrastructure and blockchain validation hardware hasn't gone away just because Nvidia's pitch has shifted toward data centers. A single factory carrying a $700 million price tag illustrates how much capital is moving into this space right now, and Wistron's near-10% stock pop shows that traditional equity markets are pricing the buildout with real conviction. Given the scale of broader market volatility around big tech lately, that kind of single-day gain stands out.
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