Pat Gelsinger, former Intel CEO who was ousted by board after disastrous performance earlier this year, recently shared his views on Nvidia’s decision to manufacture its most advanced AI chips – Blackwell in Arizona, US. Sharing a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), Gelsinger applauded the company stating that he is “pleased to see this step being taken”. “I have been affirming for years the need to build our most advanced products in the US and very pleased to see this step being taken,” he writes in the post, adding “We need to have more resilient supply chains for the world’s most important technology — semiconductors.”
“Well done, go faster, build more, go faster, build bigger, go faster…,” he concluded the post. Speaking at the company’s GTC conference earlier this week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed that its Blackwell graphics processing units are now in full production in Arizona. He said that President Trump had asked him nine months ago to start manufacturing in the country.“The first thing that President Trump asked me for is bring manufacturing back,” Huang said during the conference. “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.”Last month, Nvidia announced to invest $5 billion in the struggling chipmaker company Intel. Both chipmakers partnered to jointly develop multiple generations of custom data center and PC products that accelerate applications and workloads across hyperscale, enterprise and consumer markets.The companies will focus on seamlessly connecting Nvidia and Intel architectures using Nvidia NVLink — integrating the strengths of Nvidia’s AI and accelerated computing with Intel’s leading CPU technologies and x86 ecosystem to deliver cutting-edge solutions for customers.For data centers, Intel will build Nvidia-custom x86 CPUs that Nvidia will integrate into its AI infrastructure platforms and offer to the market.
