From Tom's Hardware: Several Taiwanese news outlets have reported on the possibility of Nvidia opening a second AI research and development center on the island. The company set up its first AI Innovation R&D center in Neihu, Taipei in 2022. Now a rumor is circulating that the green team will work with Foxconn to build a second research center in Kaohsiung Software Park, in the south.
Taiwan Television reported that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived early for Computex 2024 for a meeting with TSMC leadership and other key supply chain leaders. There were also whispers that he met with Taiwan's new President, William Lai, to talk about a second R&D center in Tainan or Kaohsiung.
While we don’t have any confirmation yet, this could be a possible answer to AMD’s recently divulged plans to open an R&D center in Taiwan. These developments may be quite surprising, as Taiwan is currently at the center of the US-China chip war, to the point that TSMC, the island’s top corporation, has equipped a remote self-destruct function to its factories in case of war.
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