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NVIDIA and Foxconn plan a 10,000-GPU AI supercomputer for Taiwan with NSTC and TSMC

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Source: NVIDIAAlso reported by The Register

At Computex on 18 May 2025, NVIDIA and Foxconn announced an AI factory supercomputer in Taiwan with 10,000 Blackwell GPUs, including GB300 NVL72 racks, run by Foxconn subsidiary Big Innovation Company as an NVIDIA cloud partner. Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council will use it to provide AI compute to researchers, startups and industry, and TSMC researchers plan to use it for R&D.

Why it matters

Taiwanese researchers and startups gained access to a large domestic Blackwell cluster through the NSTC, part of the government’s sovereign AI compute plans.

When
18 May 2025
ID
WTA-N-2025-0139
Where
Taiwan
Who
NVIDIA, Foxconn, National Science and Technology Council (Taiwan), TSMC; Jensen Huang, Young Liu, C.C. Wei

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from NVIDIA and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2025-0139: “NVIDIA and Foxconn plan a 10,000-GPU AI supercomputer for Taiwan with NSTC and TSMC.” wheresthe.ai, 18 May 2025. https://wheresthe.ai/d/tw-nvidia-foxconn-ai-factory-supercomputer-2025-05/ (source: NVIDIA).

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