Nvidia announces $2 billion AI infrastructure upgrade with Texas factory partnership
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Josh Boak
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a major AI infrastructure upgrade as part of a $2 billion partnership with Coherent, centered on a Texas factory that will produce materials for lasers to enhance chip efficiency. The initiative aims to revive U.S. manufacturing through AI, with the factory expected to create 1,000 jobs. Nvidia is shifting from chip development to building entire AI systems, with production focused in the United States. Huang argues that AI will create jobs rather than replace them, and the AI industry is positioned as crucial for both economic growth and national security, receiving bipartisan government support.
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· 3 pulledJensen Huang's company Nvidia makes the computer chips that unleashed a revolution in artificial intelligence.
Now he's wagering that an AI buildout can revive U.S. manufacturing, pushing past limits facing science and society.
Nvidia on Tuesday formally unveiled plans for a major upgrade to its AI infrastructure as part of its $2 billion partnership with the factory's owner, Coherent.
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