Wistron Opens Fort Worth Plant for Nvidia GB300 Boards

Wistron Opens Its First US Plant, Building Nvidia GB300 Boards in Fort Worth

The $700 million D1 facility assembles Grace Blackwell Ultra compute baseboards on American soil — about 5% of Nvidia's output, with a second, larger site already planned.

Jul 22, 2026Source: Nvidia

Wistron opened its first US manufacturing plant on July 21, a roughly 324,000-square-foot facility in the AllianceTexas development north of Fort Worth, built at a cost the company puts at $700 million. Fort Worth officials put the capital investment closer to $761 million.

What it actually builds

The distinction matters: this is L6-level assembly and testing of AI server systems and compute baseboards, not chip fabrication — the silicon still comes from TSMC. One cell is already mass-producing Nvidia GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra compute baseboards, the first produced at volume in the United States. A second cell is slated to build boards for the Vera Rubin superchip, but is not yet in production.

Scale, honestly stated

The site runs at roughly 60% automation and targets tens of thousands of computing boards per month within a year. TrendForce estimates that still represents only about 5% of Nvidia's total output. A second and larger Fort Worth site, D2, is already planned at roughly twice D1's capacity. Wistron reports 500-plus jobs created so far, targeting 1,000 by the end of 2026.

Built as a digital twin first

The entire factory was designed and simulated in Nvidia Omniverse before construction, with Metropolis, Nemotron, Cosmos and PhysicsNeMo used to validate assembly layouts and train workers virtually — an AI factory built, in part, by AI.

Who showed up, and what it cost the city

Wistron chairman Simon Lin, CEO Jeff Lin and Nvidia's Jensen Huang attended. "The largest infrastructure buildout in history is underway," Huang said. Fort Worth granted an 80% tax abatement on the first site and 60% on the second, projecting $10.6 million in new tax revenue against $30.7 million abated over a decade. It beat El Paso, Nashville and Fremont for the plant. Wistron shares rose about 9.7% in Taipei on July 22.

Why It Matters

Reshoring AI hardware is happening at the assembly layer, not the silicon layer — and even there, one flagship plant covers about 5% of Nvidia's output. The digital-twin build process is the more durable detail: the same simulation stack Nvidia sells to manufacturers is now what lays out the factories that build Nvidia's own boards.