NVIDIA to Build New Taiwan Headquarters, Pledges Up to $150 Billion a Year in Local Spending

NVIDIA will boost annual spending in Taiwan to roughly $150 billion, fund a new Taiwan headquarters expected to break ground this year and be operational by 2030, and deepen ties with local packaging and systems partners.

NVIDIA announced at a Taiwan ceremony that it will open a new Taiwan headquarters and materially expand local operations, a move the company says is intended to secure closer access to chip packaging and system assembly as demand for AI infrastructure surges. CEO Jensen Huang stressed Taiwan’s central role, saying it is where “the chips come, packaging comes,” and credited local partners with creating AI supercomputers.

The company said it will ramp annual spending in Taiwan to roughly $150 billion a year, up from about $10 — 15 billion a year four to five years ago. Reporting indicates those investments will fund the new Taiwan HQ, which NVIDIA expects to break ground this year and to be operational by 2030. Huang also said the firm is increasing its overall market spending from about $100 billion toward $150 billion annually.

The announcement follows NVIDIA’s rapid rise: the company reached a $5 trillion market capitalization in 2025 and is now the world’s most valuable firm. Last April NVIDIA began producing AI chips on U.S. soil for the first time, part of an effort linked to U.S. policy encouraging domestic manufacturing; the company nonetheless continues to rely on Taiwan for packaging and systems work.

Executives portrayed the Taiwan expansion as necessary to meet runaway demand for AI systems. Huang described NVIDIA’s new system, Vera Rubin, as a “generational leap” and warned the company expects supply chain constraints “throughout the entire life of Vera Rubin,” signaling that proximity to Taiwan’s advanced packaging and assembly ecosystem is central to avoiding bottlenecks.

NVIDIA said it will deepen partnerships with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and other nearby firms, highlighting advanced packaging capabilities that NVIDIA says are not yet available at TSMC’s U.S. factories. Industry context underscores the scale of the wave of investment: roughly $750 billion in planned AI infrastructure spending has been reported for this year, with a significant portion expected to go toward data-center chips.

The push also raises geopolitical questions. Huang has not explained how concentrating investments in Taiwan aligns with Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan to make the United States an AI hub, and NVIDIA did not immediately respond to requests for comment on that tension. Publicly, the company frames U.S. manufacturing as bolstering supply resilience while prioritizing Taiwan for packaging and system assembly.