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(Image credit: Shutterstock) Taiwan has formally committed over NT$100 billion (US$3.2 billion) to a new national initiative to turn the island into a global hub for artificial intelligence. The funding, reported by Nikkei Asia on Tuesday, November 18, will support a ten-point strategy focused on next-generation hardware, with government officials naming silicon photonics, quantum computing, and AI robotics as priority areas for research and development.
The AI push is being modelled after the "10 Major Construction Projects" of the 1970s, a campaign widely credited with modernising Taiwan’s infrastructure. This time, the government wants AI to serve as the new industrial core, capable of generating NT$7 trillion in added value by 2028 and NT$15 trillion by 2040. The draft 2026 budget alone sets aside more than NT$30 billion for early-stage deployment.
Premier Cho Jung-tai and President Lai Ching-te have both repeated the goal of placing Taiwan among the world’s top five countries in computing power. That includes a new national AI data center to be built in Tainan, backed by public funding, alongside a growing list of private deployments in Kaohsiung and other cities. Foxconn and Nvidia are already scaling a joint facility in Kaohsiung that is expected to hit 100 megawatts at full capacity, using Nvidia’s Blackwell platform.
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/taiwan-announces-3bn-spend-on-ai-island-ambitions#main
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