{"id":1483615,"date":"2026-02-02T12:51:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywGFxNcRzmyYRCPTUo69zX"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:51:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:51:41","slug":"tsmc-needs-to-work-very-hard-this-year-because-i-need-a-lot-of-wafers-says-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-outside-a-trillion-dollar-dinner-for-top-tech-manufacturers-in-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/tsmc-needs-to-work-very-hard-this-year-because-i-need-a-lot-of-wafers-says-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-outside-a-trillion-dollar-dinner-for-top-tech-manufacturers-in-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;TSMC needs to work very hard this year because I need a lot of wafers&#8217; says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang outside a &#8216;trillion-dollar dinner&#8217; for top tech manufacturers in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Things might be tough for PC gamers this year, as prices continue to rise on everything from memory modules to graphics cards. One person who doesn&#8217;t appear to be feeling the pinch just yet, though, is Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who hosted a so-called &#8220;trillion-dollar dinner&#8221; in Taiwan this weekend, supposedly named after the market capitalization of the firms attending.<\/p>\n<p>Huang took the opportunity to speak to the press in the rain outside of a Taipei restaurant on Saturday, where he jokingly appeared to give Taiwanese chip juggernaut TSMC something of a hurry up, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/peoples-dad-jensen-huang-praises-pushes-nvidia-suppliers-mobbed-taiwan-visit-2026-02-01\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TSMC needs to work very hard this year because I need a lot of wafers,&#8221; said Huang, laughing with the assembled press. &#8220;TSMC is doing an incredible job and they&#8217;re working very, very hard. We have a lot of demand this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the attendees was TSMC CEO C.C. Wei, who did not answer questions from reporters. While the AI boom continues to run its course, TSMC&#8217;s position as the key manufacturer at the base of the chip production chain has led to some reports that <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2025\/11\/17\/ai-isnt-slowing-its-bottlenecked-tsmc-just-told-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">the limits of its current packaging capacity may be a bottleneck<\/a>, as demand for AI hardware continues to be strong.<\/p>\n<p>Still, TSMC executives have recently signalled that <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/01\/16\/tsmcs-arizona-chip-expansion-isnt-done-after-us-investment-cfo.html\" target=\"_blank\">spending on its expansion will rise even further<\/a>, beyond its current $165 billion investment in US chip manufacturing facilities, and there are reports of plans for <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/front\/archives\/2026\/01\/18\/2003850782\" target=\"_blank\">four new advanced integrated circuit packaging plants<\/a> in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1607px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:55.38%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"JbwCz8vcFYaXapSAnwmWxD\" name=\"computex-keynote-jensen-gb200-grace-blackwell-superchip_2f917e73-2f5a-409c-b676-07ba30d9ed2f-prv.jpg\" alt=\"Jensen Huang\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tsmc-needs-to-work-very-hard-this-year-because-i-need-a-lot-of-wafers-says-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-outside-a-trillion-dollar-dinner-for-top-tech-manufacturers-in-taiwan.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1607\" height=\"890\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Nvidia)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Over the next 10 years, TSMC will likely increase their capacity by much more than 100%, and so this is a very substantial scale-up in the next decade,&#8221; said Jensen.<\/p>\n<p>As for the ongoing <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/memory\/ram-and-storage-is-ridiculously-expensive-right-now-because-of-drumroll-ai-of-course-and-theres-little-reason-to-think-prices-will-drop-any-time-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\">RAMpocalypse<\/a>, in which AI servers (many of which are powered by Nvidia&#8217;s high-end AI GPUs) have been swallowing up DRAM modules, resulting in a shortage for the rest of us, Huang had this to say:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need a lot of memory this year\u2026 I think that the entire supply chain is challenging this year because demand is so much more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, no signs of a let up there, then. Certainly, Huang has a lot to be happy about in 2026, as the demand for his company&#8217;s hardware <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/10\/03\/nvidia-ceo-demand-for-blackwell-ai-chip-is-insane.html\" target=\"_blank\">shows no sign of slowing<\/a>. Reports also indicate that several Chinese AI companies have received conditional approval to buy Nvidia&#8217;s H200 AI GPUs for training purposes, including <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/deepseek-has-reportedly-been-given-conditional-approval-by-the-chinese-government-to-buy-nvidias-ai-gpus\/\" target=\"_blank\">China&#8217;s top AI startup, DeepSeek<\/a>\u2014which, if true, may signal the end of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-at-the-moment-we-are-100-percent-out-of-china-its-important-to-be-mindful-that-what-harms-china-could-oftentimes-also-harm-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">a continual thorn<\/a> in Nvidia&#8217;s side over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>As for those of us looking to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/graphics-card-price-watch-deals\/\" target=\"_blank\">buy a graphics card<\/a> or upgrade our RAM for a reasonable sum in the near future, 2026 isn&#8217;t looking quite so rosy.<\/p>\n<p>While TSMC&#8217;s expansion may eventually lead to more capacity for key components in our beloved gaming hardware, it&#8217;s clear that <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/nvidia-beats-ai-bubble-fears-with-record-revenues-of-usd57-billion-and-off-the-charts-ai-gpu-sales\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nvidia&#8217;s bread is being buttered by AI demand<\/a> these days, and I doubt regular consumer hardware is going to be much of a priority while the going&#8217;s so good. On the plus side\u2026 well, the key tech industry players seem to have had a lovely night out. How the other half live, ey?<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/tsmc-needs-to-work-very-hard-this-year-because-i-need-a-lot-of-wafers-says-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-outside-a-trillion-dollar-dinner-for-top-tech-manufacturers-in-taiwan\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things might be tough for PC gamers this year, as prices continue to rise on everything from memory modules to graphics cards. One person who doesn&#8217;t appear to be feeling the pinch just yet, though, is Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who hosted a so-called &#8220;trillion-dollar dinner&#8221; in Taiwan this weekend, supposedly named after the market capitalization of the firms attending. Huang took the opportunity to speak to the press in the rain outside of a Taipei restaurant on Saturday, where he jokingly appeared to give Taiwanese chip juggernaut TSMC something of a hurry up, according to Reuters. &#8220;TSMC needs to work very hard this year because I need a lot of wafers,&#8221; said Huang, laughing with the assembled press. &#8220;TSMC is doing an incredible job&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/tsmc-needs-to-work-very-hard-this-year-because-i-need-a-lot-of-wafers-says-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-outside-a-trillion-dollar-dinner-for-top-tech-manufacturers-in-taiwan\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1483616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-1483615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-hardware"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;TSMC needs to work very hard this year because I need a lot of wafers&#039; says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang outside a &#039;trillion-dollar dinner&#039; for top tech manufacturers in Taiwan | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Things might be tough for PC gamers this year, as prices continue to rise on everything from memory modules to graphics cards. 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