Nvidia and Corning Team Up on Three US Optical Manufacturing Plants
The AI chip giant partners with glassmaker Corning to build optical tech facilities, expanding US production capacity tenfold.
Nvidia is linking up with Corning to open three advanced manufacturing plants focused on optical technology. The facilities will be located in North Carolina and Texas.
The partnership will boost Corning's domestic optical manufacturing capacity by 10x — a massive scaling move tied directly to the insatiable demand driven by AI infrastructure.
Nvidia sits at the epicenter of the AI hardware boom, and this deal underscores how that demand is rippling outward beyond chips into the physical infrastructure layer. Optical tech is critical for high-speed data transfer between servers and within AI data centers.
For Corning, the century-old glassmaker best known for Gorilla Glass, this represents a major bet on becoming an essential supplier in the AI supply chain. Three new plants is not a toe-dip — it's a cannonball.