The headquarters agreement and the GTC venue choice are two moves in the same direction: NVIDIA is converting Taiwan from a critical external dependency into an internal operating base. The Taipei City Government deal — formalizing NVIDIA's Taiwan headquarters — is not a corporate real-estate decision in isolation. Paired with the GTC return, it signals that senior leadership, not just manufacturing contracts, will be rooted there. The labs and competitors that treat Taiwan as a fabrication address will find themselves arguing with a company that treats it as home.