Nvidia CEO Says US Will Take Years to Achieve Chip Independence

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, who runs the semiconductor industry’s most valuable company, said the US is as much as 20 years away from breaking its dependence on overseas chipmaking.

Huang, speaking at the New York Times’s DealBook conference in New York, explained how his company’s products rely on myriad components that come from different parts of the world — not just Taiwan, where the most important elements are manufactured.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said it may take decades for the US to break its dependence on overseas chip production.

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“We are somewhere between a decade and two decades away from supply chain independence,” he said. “It’s not a really practical thing for a decade or ...