TLDRs;
- Jensen Huang calls Trump’s AI and reindustrialization vision “a great blueprint” for America’s tech future.
- NVIDIA now manufactures its Blackwell AI chip entirely in Arizona after a nine-month national effort.
- Huang says onshoring may cost more initially but will create millions of high-skill jobs in the U.S.
- He backs Trump’s new deal with China, calling it a “historic milestone” for restoring tech trade balance.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has hailed former President Donald Trump’s AI and manufacturing agenda as a turning point for America’s industrial and technological revival.
Speaking on Fox News Sunday Morning Futures, Huang described artificial intelligence as “the most important technology of our time, potentially the most important of all time,” emphasizing that U.S. leadership in AI requires domestic manufacturing, energy independence, and large-scale industrial rebuilding.
Huang’s remarks came as NVIDIA announced that its most advanced AI chip, the Blackwell, is now being fully manufactured in Arizona, marking a historic milestone for the U.S. semiconductor industry. The move, long urged by Trump during his first administration, signals America’s growing independence from foreign tech supply chains, especially those linked to China.
Trump’s Vision
Huang credited Trump’s policies for laying the foundation of America’s AI strength.
“President Trump wanted us to reindustrialize the United States, lead in energy, and lead in artificial intelligence,” Huang said. “These three initiatives, reindustrialization, energy growth, and AI leadership are transforming America’s position in the world.”
NVIDIA’s new onshore operations follow a nine-month sprint to bring chip production to the U.S., in partnership with TSMC, Foxconn, and SPIL.
Huang said the project required thousands of workers like engineers, electricians, plumbers, and construction crews, working around the clock to complete the facility.
Made in America: Security and Jobs First
Huang acknowledged that manufacturing chips in the U.S. is more expensive than in Asia but said the benefits outweigh the costs. “It costs money to make the investment, but over time, it’s going to pay for itself and more,” he said.
He highlighted three key advantages: national security, supply chain resilience, and job creation. The new Arizona facility, he added, will feed into AI supercomputers, what Huang calls “AI factories”, that will power industries from healthcare to robotics. “This will create millions of high-quality jobs,” he predicted, emphasizing skilled trade and engineering roles as the backbone of America’s new AI economy.
Trump’s insistence that critical technology manufacturing return to U.S. soil was “sound and visionary,” according to Huang.
“We can’t afford to have the critical manufacturing of technologies so important to national security be made elsewhere,” he said.
AI Buildout and Global Competition
Huang also praised Trump’s recent deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping, calling it “a historic milestone.” The agreement reduces tariffs and pauses certain export controls on rare earth materials, potentially reopening China’s market to U.S. tech firms.
“This creates the conditions for NVIDIA to compete again in China,” Huang said, noting that NVIDIA’s market share there had collapsed from 95% to zero over the past four years.
He criticized the prior administration’s restrictive policies, calling them counterproductive.
“They really backfired,” he said. “We retreated from the second-largest technology market in the world and underestimated China’s ability to accelerate its own AI industry.” Huang said the Trump-era framework “set the tone perfectly” for America to lead globally while allowing companies to compete abroad.
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