Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, who was ousted by Intel’s board earlier this year after what the article describes as disastrous performance, publicly welcomed Nvidia’s decision to manufacture its most advanced Blackwell Artificial Intelligence chips in Arizona. Posting on X, Gelsinger said he was “pleased to see this step being taken,” and reiterated a longstanding view that the United States should build its most advanced products domestically. He added that “we need to have more resilient supply chains for the world’s most important technology — semiconductors,” and concluded his post with a call to accelerate production: “Well done, go faster, build more, go faster, build bigger, go faster….”
Nvidia confirmed the Arizona production during its GTC conference, where CEO Jensen Huang said Blackwell graphics processing units are now in full production there. Huang told the conference that President Trump had asked him nine months earlier to start manufacturing in the country, and stressed the national-security and economic rationales: “The first thing that President Trump asked me for is bring manufacturing back,” Huang said. “Bring manufacturing back because it’s necessary for national security. Bring manufacturing back because we want the jobs. We want that part of the economy.”
The article also notes recent commercial ties between the two chipmakers. Last month Nvidia announced to invest $5 billion in Intel, and the companies outlined a partnership to jointly develop multiple generations of custom data center and PC products. They said they will work to connect Nvidia and Intel architectures using Nvidia NVLink and that Intel will build Nvidia-custom x86 CPUs for data-center use. Gelsinger’s comments frame Nvidia’s move as part of a broader effort to strengthen domestic semiconductor manufacturing and supply-chain resilience.
