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A unit of Taiwanese consumer electronics giant Asus<\/a> is developing a supercomputer, powered by Nvidia<\/a> chips, that is expected to boost the island\u2019s computing capacity by at least 50 per cent, according to a senior executive.<\/p>\n

That infrastructure, a collaboration between Taiwan AI Cloud and the island\u2019s National Centre for High-Performance Computing, is expected to launch its initial phase with a capacity of 80 petaflops in December, said Peter Wu, CEO of Asus Cloud and Taiwan AI Cloud, in an interview with the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n

Located in the southern city of Tainan, the supercomputer would eventually have a total capacity of 250 petaflops. One petaflop is equal to 1 trillion calculations per second.<\/p>\n

By comparison, Hewlett Packard Enterprises<\/a>\u2019 El Capitan ranked No 1 in the June 2025 list of the world\u2019s most powerful supercomputers, with a capacity of 1,742 petaflops. This supercomputer, which started operations last year, takes up a 7,500 sq ft of floor space at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.<\/p>\n

Wu said Taiwan\u2019s latest supercomputer project would boost the island\u2019s total computing capacity by at least 50 per cent. It forms part of the island\u2019s efforts to become a \u201ctop three computing power in Asia\u201d.<\/p>\n

In February, the Taiwanese government\u2019s technology council said it plans to expand the island\u2019s overall computing capacity to around 1,200 petaflops by 2029, from 160 petaflops at present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A unit of Taiwanese consumer electronics giant Asus is developing a supercomputer, powered by Nvidia chips, that is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[4487,691,13214,52030,97613,276,74,745,41129,10657,97621,97617,97615,97618,38396,97620,97619,1671,94195,97611,918,23134,53937,30723,97614,158,97612,67,132,68,15336,97616],"class_list":{"0":"post-170812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-agentic-ai","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-asia-pacific","11":"tag-asus","12":"tag-asus-cloud","13":"tag-california","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-computing","16":"tag-data-centre","17":"tag-december","18":"tag-digital-twin","19":"tag-el-capitan","20":"tag-graphics-processing-units","21":"tag-hewlett-packard-enterprises","22":"tag-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory","23":"tag-ministry-of-digital-affairs","24":"tag-national-centre-for-high-performance-computing","25":"tag-nvidia","26":"tag-petaflops","27":"tag-peter-wu","28":"tag-quantum-computing","29":"tag-singapore","30":"tag-supercomputer","31":"tag-taiwan","32":"tag-taiwan-ai-cloud","33":"tag-technology","34":"tag-top500","35":"tag-united-states","36":"tag-unitedstates","37":"tag-us","38":"tag-vietnam","39":"tag-viettel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}