Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger praises cutting-edge Nvidia chip production with TSMC on US soil, despite Intel missing out — hails manufacturing milestone of US-based supply chain

Intel’s former CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has praised the news that Nvidia’s latest Blackwell GPUs are now being produced at its Arizona facility. It’s important, he said, for the most cutting-edge silicon supply chains to be resilient, and that such moves would also help Nvidia develop and iterate faster and bigger into the future.

This comes as somewhat of a surprise, as it was under Gelsinger’s leadership that Intel pushed so hard for Nvidia fabrication contracts. To date, Intel Foundry Services hasn’t…