Nvidia plans to spend around US$150 billion a year in Taiwan as the company deepens its role in the global artificial intelligence supply chain.
Chief Executive Jensen Huang announced the figure in Taipei on Wednesday during a launch celebration for Nvidia’s planned Taiwan headquarters. He described Taiwan as the “epicentre” of the AI revolution and said the island would remain central to global technology manufacturing for years to come.
Nvidia Expands Its Taiwan Commitment
Huang said Nvidia’s annual spending in Taiwan has risen sharply over the past several years.
“Four years ago, five years ago, Nvidia was spending about 10, 15 billion dollars a year in Taiwan. Now we’re spending 100, going to 150 billion dollars in Taiwan each year,” Huang said, according to Reuters.
Nvidia did not say how long it expects to maintain the US$150 billion annual spending level.
The announcement comes as Nvidia continues to sit at the centre of global AI demand. Its graphics processing units, or GPUs, are used to train and run many of the AI systems now being adopted across enterprise technology, cloud computing, data centres, and advanced research.
A GPU is a chip designed to process many tasks at once. That makes it especially useful for AI workloads, which need large amounts of computing power to process data and generate responses.
New Taiwan Headquarters Set for 2030
Nvidia’s planned Taiwan headquarters is expected to break ground this year and become operational in 2030.
The site is expected to employ around 4,000 people and will bring Nvidia closer to several of its most important manufacturing partners. These include Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, better known as TSMC, as well as Foxconn, Wistron, and Quanta Computer.
TSMC is the world’s largest contract chipmaker and produces many of the advanced chips used in AI systems. Foxconn, Wistron, and Quanta also play major roles in building AI servers and infrastructure.
For Nvidia, the new headquarters places the company closer to the manufacturing ecosystem that supports much of its AI hardware business.
Taiwan’s Role in AI Infrastructure
Huang said Taiwan’s importance comes from the full AI hardware chain built across the island.
“Taiwan is the epicentre of the AI revolution. This is where the chips come, packaging comes, this is where the systems are made, this is where AI supercomputers were created,” Huang said.
That supply chain matters because AI infrastructure doesn’t depend on chips alone. It also needs advanced packaging, server assembly, networking equipment, cooling systems, and high-volume manufacturing capacity.
Advanced packaging is the process of combining chips in ways that improve performance and energy efficiency. As AI systems become more powerful, that packaging layer has become more important to how quickly companies can build and scale new systems.
Taiwan has become one of the most important hubs for that work.
AI Investment in Taiwan Continues to Grow
Nvidia’s announcement follows another major AI investment commitment in Taiwan.
Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, said last week that it would invest more than US$10 billion across Taiwan’s AI sector. Reuters reported that AMD plans to deepen strategic partnerships and expand its capacity to build and assemble advanced AI chips.
AMD is also working with Taiwanese partners to increase production capacity as global demand for processors grows. Reuters reported that the company is investing in advanced packaging, substrates, and manufacturing infrastructure.
Together, the announcements point to Taiwan’s continuing role as one of the most important manufacturing centres in the AI economy.
Nvidia Strengthens Its AI Manufacturing Base
Nvidia’s Taiwan plans come as the company continues to expand its AI hardware ambitions.
Reuters reported last week that Nvidia has been trying to reassure investors that it can continue growing through a broad customer base and new products. Huang has also said the company expects its flagship AI chips to help it move towards more than US$1 trillion in sales.
The Taiwan investment does not change Nvidia’s public product strategy. But it does make one thing clear: the company sees Taiwan as central to the physical buildout of AI.
For enterprise technology buyers, the announcement is less about one new building and more about where AI infrastructure is being made. Nvidia’s spending plans show how tightly the next phase of AI growth remains linked to Taiwan’s semiconductor and server manufacturing base.
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