Wistron Opens Its First US Factory in Fort Worth to Build NVIDIA AI Systems

Taiwan-based contract manufacturer Wistron has opened its first manufacturing facility in the United States, a plant in Fort Worth, Texas, dedicated to producing NVIDIA AI systems. The opening is the latest move in a broader reshoring trend that has seen several major Asian electronics manufacturers establish US production capacity, driven by a combination of political pressure, supply chain risk concerns, and the sheer scale of domestic AI infrastructure demand.

Wistron is one of the world's largest contract electronics manufacturers, best known historically for producing Apple devices, but it has spent recent years diversifying heavily into AI server and data centre hardware. The Fort Worth facility represents a significant commitment to US-based production for a company that has traditionally operated almost entirely in Asia.

Why Texas?

Texas has emerged as a genuine hub for AI hardware manufacturing in the United States. The state offers a combination of relatively low land and energy costs, a growing technical workforce, favourable tax conditions, and proximity to major logistics networks. It is no coincidence that several high-profile manufacturing announcements in the AI space have named Texas as their location of choice.

Fort Worth in particular sits within the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth largest metropolitan area in the US, which gives manufacturers access to a large labour pool and well-developed transport infrastructure. For a facility producing large, heavy AI server racks that need to be shipped to data centres across the country, logistics access matters enormously.

NVIDIA has been vocal about its ambitions to have AI infrastructure built and tested on American soil, a message that resonates with both the political climate and the practical reality that major US cloud providers, which are NVIDIA's biggest customers, have strong preferences for domestically produced hardware in certain procurement contexts.

The Reshoring Moment for AI Hardware

The Wistron Fort Worth announcement is part of a pattern. In recent months, TSMC has been expanding its Arizona chip fabrication capacity, Samsung has invested in Texas semiconductor production, and multiple server manufacturers have announced US facilities. The AI boom has created demand at a scale that makes domestic production economically viable in a way it simply was not before.

Contract manufacturers like Wistron operate on tight margins and need volume to make facilities economically viable. The sustained demand for NVIDIA's Blackwell and now Vera Rubin generation hardware, with enterprise and hyperscale customers queuing for systems, provides exactly the volume consistency a new manufacturing facility needs to justify its capital expenditure.

There is also a supply chain resilience argument. The concentration of advanced electronics manufacturing in Taiwan creates a geopolitical risk that US customers are increasingly factoring into procurement decisions. A Fort Worth facility does not eliminate that risk entirely, given that many components will still originate in Asia, but it does mean final assembly and testing happens on US soil, which matters for certain government and defence contracts.

What Gets Built There

The facility produces NVIDIA AI systems, which in practice means the dense, high-power server configurations that pack NVIDIA GPUs together for data centre deployment. These are not consumer products. They are large, complex, thermally demanding systems that require precision assembly and thorough testing before they leave the factory floor.

Building these systems in the US rather than shipping finished units from Asia has logistical advantages too. Data centres often want to specify custom configurations, and having a nearby facility that can accommodate those requests and respond quickly to issues reduces lead times significantly.

For Wistron, this is also a strategic positioning move. As US policy continues to favour domestically produced AI infrastructure, being one of the few contract manufacturers with established US facilities creates a competitive advantage when NVIDIA and its partners are deciding where to source hardware builds. The Fort Worth plant could prove to be a smart early bet on where the industry is heading.