According to NVIDIA's blog, Wistron opened a 324,000-sq-ft Fort Worth plant on July 22, a $700 million investment producing NVIDIA superchips.
Why Wistron's Fort Worth Plant Matters for US AI Manufacturing
According to a NVIDIA blog post dated July 22, 2026, Wistron opened its first U.S. manufacturing facility that day in Fort Worth, Texas — a 324,000-square-foot greenfield plant that NVIDIA describes as producing "superchips at the heart of some of the world's most capable AI systems." The opening ceremony drew an audience of Wistron executives, Taiwan government officials and local Fort Worth leaders; NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang took the stage with Wistron Chairman Simon Lin to discuss what NVIDIA's post calls "build[ing] the infrastructure for the AI era in America." The same post states the facility represents a $700 million commitment to advanced manufacturing in the United States.
Inside D1: Production Lines and Capacity Plans
NVIDIA's blog identifies the plant as Wistron's D1 facility and reports it currently runs two manufacturing cells: one producing the NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip and one that will produce the NVIDIA Vera Rubin Superchip. NVIDIA states that D1 is scaling up in 2026 to produce tens of thousands of boards per month — technology NVIDIA's post characterizes as "the most advanced technology in the industry."
Job Creation in Texas
According to NVIDIA's blog, the Fort Worth facility has created over 500 new jobs, with Wistron planning to expand that to 1,000 by the end of 2026. Read alongside the $700 million investment figure disclosed in the same post, the jobs data frames the plant's scale in both capital and workforce terms.
| Metric | Figure | Source |
|---|
| Facility size | 324,000 sq ft | NVIDIA blog |
| Investment commitment | $700 million | NVIDIA blog |
| Jobs created (current) | 500+ | NVIDIA blog |
| Jobs planned (by end of 2026) | 1,000 | NVIDIA blog |
| Monthly board output (2026 target) | Tens of thousands | NVIDIA blog |
| NVIDIA's total US manufacturing commitment | $500 billion | NVIDIA blog |
| Parts per GB300-based system | 1.5 million | NVIDIA blog (Huang quote) |
| Weight per system | 2 tons | NVIDIA blog (Huang quote) |
| Cost per system | $4 million | NVIDIA blog (Huang quote) |
Digital-Twin Design and the GB300 Superchip
Per NVIDIA's blog, Wistron designed and fully simulated the entire Fort Worth facility before construction began, building a digital twin on NVIDIA's open platform that included the Nemotron and Cosmos frontier models, Omniverse and Metropolis libraries, and open frameworks such as PhysicsNeMo. The same post quotes Huang describing the scale of the systems built around the GB300 superchip: "It has one-and-a-half million parts inside — two tons, four million dollars — and we're producing them like phones, right here in Wistron, cranking them out in volume because the world needs all of these machines to drive the intelligence infrastructure."
Ceremony Highlights: The First GB300 Off the Line
NVIDIA's blog states the opening ceremony included the unveiling of the first NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip produced on site, which Huang signed.
NVIDIA's Broader $500 Billion US Manufacturing Commitment
According to the same NVIDIA blog post, NVIDIA has committed to manufacturing up to $500 billion in advanced AI platforms in the United States — a figure that situates the Fort Worth plant's $700 million investment within a far larger, company-wide pledge.
Media Coverage: Huang's Interviews
NVIDIA's blog notes that Huang also sat down for interviews with Mike Allen of Axios and, separately, with Lana Ferguson of the Dallas Morning News, whom NVIDIA notes had also covered Coherent's groundbreaking of a new manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas, in June.
What This Means
Taken together, the numbers NVIDIA disclosed nest within each other: the $700 million Fort Worth investment and its 500-to-1,000 jobs sit inside NVIDIA's $500 billion national manufacturing commitment, while the plant's two production cells — building the GB300 and Vera Rubin superchips toward a target of tens of thousands of boards per month — feed systems that Huang, in his own account, described as 2-ton, $4 million machines assembled from 1.5 million parts. The digital-twin design that NVIDIA says preceded construction and the on-site unveiling of the first assembled GB300 chip both point to the same event: a single-day ceremony in which a new physical plant, a national investment figure and a specific product were presented together.