Taiwan's Wistron Opens Texas Plant to Build AI Superchips for Nvidia

Shares in the electronics maker surged after its first U.S. manufacturing facility began operations in Fort Worth

Shares of Taiwan's Wistron Corporation surged after the company opened its first U.S. manufacturing facility, a plant in Fort Worth, Texas, that will produce AI superchips to supply Nvidia, according to CNBC.

The Fort Worth facility marks a significant expansion of Wistron's operations onto American soil, part of a broader wave of Taiwanese technology manufacturers building or expanding U.S. production capacity to serve the booming demand for artificial intelligence hardware. Nvidia's chips power much of the infrastructure behind the current AI boom, and manufacturers throughout its supply chain have been racing to keep pace with orders.

The investment lands amid heightened political pressure on chipmakers to shift more advanced manufacturing to the United States, a push that has reshaped supply-chain strategy across Taiwan's electronics industry. Investors responded favorably to the news, sending Wistron's Taiwan-listed shares higher.

The opening underscores how deeply intertwined Taiwan's technology sector has become with both Nvidia's supply chain and the broader effort to localize advanced chip and hardware production inside the United States.

— Compiled from reporting by CNBC.