Speaking on July 22, 2026, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told reporters that Taiwan's identity in global manufacturing has shifted. According to TechNews, Huang said "all Taiwanese people need to know that Taiwan no longer equals 'cheap' — it now represents 'advanced'" (E1). He added that Taiwan still offers "cost-efficient" production but is no longer "low cost" (E1). In the same remarks, Huang said Taiwan currently sits at the most advanced level in chip manufacturing and electronics manufacturing, calling it "absolutely the global epicenter" of electronics production (E2).
Huang attended the opening ceremony of Wistron's D1 plant in Dallas, Texas on July 21, 2026, according to a report from the Central News Agency (CNA) (E5). At the event, he signed the first GB300 compute substrate produced in the United States (E5). CNA reported that Huang made his comments about Taiwan no longer being "cheap and abundant" during this same visit (E1, per TechNews, dated the following day).
According to TechNews, Huang described the scale of the systems being built as involving a unit weighing 2 metric tons, containing 1.5 million individual parts, and valued at several million U.S. dollars (E3). He said producing such a system requires what TechNews paraphrased as an extremely precise manufacturing process (E3).
On the question of water use — a point of public concern around AI data centers — Huang said the newest generation of AI factories has moved to a 100% closed-loop liquid cooling system, with high water reuse rates that result in lower water consumption than older-generation data centers (E4).
| Attribute | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| System weight | 2 metric tons | TechNews (E3) |
| Component count | 1.5 million parts | TechNews (E3) |
| System value | Several million USD | TechNews (E3) |
| Cooling loop coverage | 100% liquid cooling | TechNews (E4) |
CNA reported that Huang said Taiwan's cooperation with the United States is voluntary, born of Taiwan's own judgment and trust, stating "I don't think you need to point a gun at Taiwan's head" (E6). He went further, telling reporters that without Taiwan's support, the United States would not have today's semiconductor industry — and that it might otherwise have been entirely taken over by Japan, according to CNA (E7).
Huang's framing links two threads reported across the two sources cited here: TechNews' account of him repositioning Taiwan away from a low-cost identity toward an "advanced" and "epicenter" status (E1, E2), and CNA's account of him defending the voluntary nature of U.S.-Taiwan chip cooperation while crediting Taiwan's support with preserving the U.S. semiconductor industry against a hypothetical Japanese takeover (E6, E7). The physical scale details he gave for AI supercomputers — 2 tons, 1.5 million parts, several million dollars in value, and 100% liquid cooling (E3, E4) — were presented at the same Texas event where he signed the first U.S.-made GB300 substrate (E5), tying his commentary on Taiwan's status directly to the hardware being produced at that plant.
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