NVIDIA and Corning Announce Long-Term Partnership
NVIDIA and Corning Incorporated revealed a multiyear partnership focused on commercial and technological collaboration to significantly enhance the manufacturing of advanced optical connectivity solutions in the U.S., essential for supporting next-generation AI infrastructure.
Corning plans to enhance its optical connectivity manufacturing capacity in the U.S. by 10 times and boost its U.S. fiber production capacity by over 50% to address the rising demand spurred by AI factory expansions.
The growth involves building three new state-of-the-art manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Texas, generating over 3,000 new, well-paying jobs for Americans.
Corning’s increased capacity will provide the optical connectivity that hyperscale data centers utilize to implement NVIDIA-accelerated computing at scale.
Contemporary AI tasks demand numerous NVIDIA GPUs — necessitating unparalleled amounts of high-quality optical fiber, connectivity, and photonics to transfer data with remarkable speed and scale.
As AI factories expand in size and quantity, optical connectivity emerges as a crucial element of the AI framework.
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Corning, creator of low-loss optical fiber and a global leader in glass science and optical physics, is ideally equipped to satisfy this demand on a large scale
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA says, “AI is driving the largest infrastructure buildout of our time — and a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reinvigorate American manufacturing and supply chains."
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"Together with Corning, we are inventing the future of computing with advanced optical technologies — building the foundation for AI infrastructure where intelligence moves at the speed of light while advancing the proud tradition of Made in America,” adds Jensen.
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Wendell P. Weeks, chairman, CEO and president of Corning says,“What NVIDIA is doing is nothing short of extraordinary, not just for the future of artificial intelligence, but for the American advanced manufacturing workforce. Their commitment is directly fueling the expansion of our U.S. manufacturing footprint and creating more than 3,000 new, high-paying jobs for American workers. This partnership is proof that AI is not just a technology story. It is a manufacturing story, and it is happening here in the United States. Together with NVIDIA, we are ensuring the critical technologies powering AI are invented, engineered and built in America.”