Nvidia to spend $150 billion annually in Taiwan, build HQ

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a significant expansion of the company's operations in Taiwan, pledging to increase annual spending with Taiwanese suppliers to approximately $150 billion. The announcement was made during a keynote address at the Computex technology conference in Taipei, where Huang declared Taiwan the "epicenter of the AI revolution." This commitment underscores the island's critical role in the global semiconductor supply chain, which produces the majority of the world's advanced chips.

The increased investment will support Nvidia's sprawling ecosystem of partners in Taiwan, which includes chip fabrication by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and assembly by firms like Foxconn and Quanta. Huang highlighted the company's next-generation AI platform, "Vera Rubin," as a flagship example of this collaboration, describing it as one of the largest product launches in Taiwan's history. The platform involves nearly two million parts sourced from about 150 local partners.

Concurrently, Nvidia unveiled plans to build a new headquarters campus in Taipei, named "Constellation." The project, representing an investment of roughly $1.27 billion, is set to...