Built in Fort Worth: Wistron Opens Advanced Manufacturing Plant for NVIDIA AI System Production

Wistron has opened its first US manufacturing facility, the D1 Plant, a 324,000-square-foot facility in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. The plant was built to produce the superchips at the core of the world's most powerful AI systems.

The facility currently operates two manufacturing cells, producing the NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip and the NVIDIA Vera Rubin Superchip. It plans to scale up to produce tens of thousands of boards per month by the end of this year.

The project represents a $700 million investment in advanced manufacturing in the US, having already created more than 500 jobs, with plans to expand to 1,000 by year-end. NVIDIA has committed to investing up to $500 billion in manufacturing advanced AI platforms in the US, and the Wistron plant is central to that execution.

Notably, before constructing the plant, Wistron designed and simulated the entire facility in a virtual world using Digital Twin technology built on NVIDIA's open platforms, including Omniverse, Nemotron, and Cosmos. This allowed the company to validate assembly line layouts and optimize production processes before actual operation.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the first GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip produced at the plant, describing the system as the 'world's most powerful AI supercomputer,' with approximately 1.5 million components, a weight of 2 tons, and a value of $4 million.