Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia Corp, speaks during a news conference in Taipei on May 21, 2025.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised the Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company on a visit to Taiwan on Friday, stating that anyone wants to take a stake in the company, “very smart”.
It comes at a time when the US administration has indicated interest in getting bets in technical companies, especially in the receipt of funding under the US Chips Act.
Huang, who said that the main objective of his visit to Taiwan was to thank TSMC for his work on Rubin in NVIDIA, its next generation AI chip platform commented on Washington’s response to Washington to take a stake in TSMC.
“Well, first of all, I think TSMC is one of the largest companies in the history of humanity, and whoever wants to buy TSMC stock is a very smart person,” he said.
Huang said that TSMC was creating six new products for NVIDIA, a new central processing unit, a hardware component used for calculations and a new general processing unit used for advanced computation, especially AI.
Earlier this week, Reuters reported that the US Commerce Secretary was looking at the equity stax in exchange for the Chips Act funding for companies such as Howard Lutnik. Micron, TSMC And Samsung,
The 2022 Chips Act, which has been passed with bipartisan support under the Biden administration, has observed Grants and loans given to chipmakers Extend the production in the US as part of efforts by Washington to revive the US leadership in semiconductor manufacturing. TSMC $ 6.6 billion was promised To help build three state -of -the -art chip fabrication plants in Arizona under the Act.
Lutnik confirmed in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday that the government was in a conversation 10% equity share Troubled semiconductor company Intel, and said that the administration could consider stake in other firms as well.
A Report from The Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, however, the government has no plans to find shares in semiconductor firms that were increasing their American investments citing a government official. TSMC, in March, Announced Its investment in the United States expands $ 165 billion.
Separately, Huang said that NVIDIA was eager to start work on “NVIDIA Planetarium” – recently announced a new Taiwan office for the company to give home to its growing Taiwan workforce.
Huang said that the company was still working with the local government to start its construction on some issues.
“We have many, many employees in Taiwan, and we are growing here in Taiwan because our supply chain is very busy here.”
“We are working with chip companies, system vendors and system manufacturers in Taiwan, and everyone is working so hard for us and so we need a lot of engineers to work with them,” he said.
Shares at the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer TSMC have increased by 6.5% so far this year.
separately, News report It was stated on Friday that NVIDIA had asked some of its constituent suppliers to prevent production related to the H20 general processing units, after China raising security concerns after China.
Last month, Nvidia said she was expected to obtain an export license for her H20 chips, which was effectively banned in April. However, Beijing reportedly Keep a freeze The local company’s ability to buy them.
According to Reuters, one of the companies asked to stop his work in relation to H20 chips that Taiwan’s Foxcon was also known – also known Honorable accurate industryFoxconn did not respond to an inquiry from CNBC on the matter.
Huang said on Friday that the company responded to Beijing’s concerns about its H20S and hoping that the issue would be resolved.
