Nvidia has produced the first Blackwell wafer on US soil

https://www.xda-developers.com/nvidia-produced-first-blackwell-wafer-us-soil/

46•kristianp•2h ago

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roboror•1h ago

This is the culmination of years of work, not months, as the article suggests. I prefer the actual press release.

xnx•1h ago

Official source press release: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/tsmc-blackwell-manufacturing/

aiauthoritydev•57m ago

Wow. This is a big deal. I had placed a bet that this will never work out and the folks on the ground thought the same too. This probably is going to be the lasting legacy of Biden administration.

GenerocUsername•21m ago

Doubt Biden gets the long term credit when Trump is famously the guy setting policy this decade for onshoring.

Biden was Senator for 40 years most famous for radical offshoring and decimation of local manufacturing.

pengaru•10m ago

Don't forget this gem either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAVE_act

echelon•47m ago

This is incredible news!

I never thought this would happen, or that if it did, we'd be a few generations behind.

Now let's onshore or friendshore everything else we need! Rare earths, mid-tier processors, chemical precursors, pharmaceuticals, steel, robotics/mechatronics, solar, drones, ...

Why even stop there? Kill the Jones Act, get back to building naval drones and ships of all kinds, ...

jrk•10m ago

It is a few generations behind: Blackwell is still on N4, which is an N5 variant. Meanwhile TSMC has been shipping N3 family processes in large volume products (Apple) for more than 2 years already, and is starting to ramp the next major node family (N2) for Apple et al. next year.

NVIDIA has often lagged on process, since they drive such large dies, but having the first major project demo wafer on N4 now is literally 2 generations behind Taiwan.

dialogbox•42m ago

Next step would be the king of US destroy Taiwan and owns the whole nvidia production.

ofrzeta•6m ago

So "This is the vision of President Trump of reindustrialization" but it's been in the works for "a few short years"?

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