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TSMC needs to double capacity over next decade to meet NVIDIA demand
Saturday, January 31, 2026 at 11:47 PM
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated that TSMC will be required to double its semiconductor production capacity over the next ten years specifically to satisfy the growing demand from NVIDIA.
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang projects that TSMC must expand production capacity by more than 100% over the next decade to sustain the AI boom. With Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin chips now in full production, NVIDIA expects its own requirements to necessitate more than a 2x increase in capacity alone. This massive scale-up highlights a total reliance on Taiwanese manufacturing and represents what Huang describes as one of the largest infrastructure expansions in human history.
Additionally, NVIDIA confirmed it will participate in OpenAI’s upcoming funding round, committing to what will likely be its largest strategic investment to date. This move solidifies a critical alliance as OpenAI scales its next-generation models. On the hardware side, a significant supply gap persists; while HBM and LPDDR memory supply is growing by 100% annually, it remains insufficient to keep pace with the skyrocketing demand across the global AI supply chain.
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