TAIPEI, May 16 (Reuters) - Taiwanese electronics

manufacturer Wistron ( WICOF ) said on Friday that its new U.S.

manufacturing facilities for its customer Nvidia ( NVDA ) would

be ready next year and the firm was in talks with potential

other customers.

Part of the facilities will be used by Nvidia ( NVDA ) to support its

plan to build artificial intelligence servers worth up to $500

billion in the U.S. over the next four years.

The U.S. firm said in April it planned to build

supercomputer manufacturing plants in Texas, partnering with

Foxconn in Houston and Wistron ( WICOF ) in Dallas. Both sites

are expected to increase production within 12 to 15 months.

"I believe it's exactly in line with what the customer

announced. All our progress will follow the customer's lead,"

Wistron ( WICOF ) CEO Jeff Lin said in his first public comments since

Nvidia's ( NVDA ) announcement.

He said the company was in discussion with other customers

to use the U.S. facilities, which will produce high-performance

computing and AI-related products, declining to disclose their

names.

Wistron's ( WICOF ) board approved a total investment of $500 million

in its new U.S. subsidiary to support business development and

strategic growth in the U.S.

Commenting on U.S. restrictions on exports of advanced chips

to China, Lin said demand outside of China remained very strong.

"We expect to grow alongside our customers ... As for

developments in the Middle East, most of them are essentially

our indirect customers."

The United Arab Emirates and the U.S. signed an agreement

this week for the Gulf country to build the largest AI campus

outside the U.S., in a deal that according to sources could

involve purchase of 500,000 of Nvidia's ( NVDA ) most advanced AI chips

per year starting in 2025.

As the U.S. threatens sweeping tariffs on many of its

trading partners, Wistron ( WICOF ) said it would also consider producing

notebooks in Mexico, noting that such products would not face

tariffs under the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.