US-Made GB300 Rolls Off Line, but 'Made in USA' Still Has a Final Mile to Go

In 2024, the US chip manufacturing "reshoring" slogan has been shouted for four whole years. TSMC's Fab 21 in Arizona going into production is seen as a milestone for this strategy. According to Commercial Times, the factory successfully produced its first batch of Nvidia GB300 GPUs using the 4nm process. But one detail reveals the truth: these chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan for packaging.