By Tom Giles, Miaojung Lin, Debby Wu
Publication Date: 2026-10-16 16:15:00
Taiwan plans to raise billions of dollars to develop industrial parks in the US that would build a base for a comprehensive supply chain for Nvidia Corp. and other AI hardware makers in the country.
The initiative is starting with a complex in Texas that would cost as much as $4 billion to build, according to Taiwan’s Minister of Economic Affairs Kung Ming-hsin. The facilities would help smaller suppliers that are essential to the operations of Nvidia’s main production partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and AI server assemblers including Foxconn Technology Group to set up shop in the US, Kung said.
Each complex would run between $2 billion and $4 billion to build, and the government is planning “more than one” site on US soil, Kung said in an Oct. 12 interview with Bloomberg News. The Taiwanese government is partnering with the Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association, which will be responsible for raising required funding to develop the complexes, he said.
“We are going to establish a long-term, sustainable supply chain there that can also be joined by American firms and local workers, and not just Taiwanese companies,” Kung said.
Companies like TSMC, Foxconn and Wistron Corp. provide essential hardware for data centers and are critical to the success of US AI chipmakers including Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., and cloud service providers such as Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp. These Taiwanese…
