Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang inspects Wistron’s first US facility in Fort Worth

Jensen Huang has a habit of showing up where the action is. On July 21, 2026, the Nvidia CEO presided over the grand opening of Wistron’s D1 AI manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, a 324,000-square-foot building representing a $700 million bet that the future of AI hardware does not have to be assembled exclusively overseas. This is Huang’s second Texas appearance in roughly two months. He was also on hand for the Coherent facility groundbreaking in June 2026. What the D1 facility actually does The Fort Worth plant is not a research lab or a data center. It is a production facility, and its first job is building the GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip, Nvidia’s current flagship AI processor architecture. After that ramps up, the facility is slated to move into production of the next-generation Vera Rubin Superchip. The facility is built using Nvidia’s own accelerated computing stack, including AI models like Nemotron and Cosmos, along with digital twin technology. Wistron, for context, is a Taiwanese contract manufacturer and longtime Nvidia partner. This Fort Worth facility is its first footprint on US soil, which makes the $700 million investment a meaningful geographic...