In brief
- Nvidia’s new supercomputer will use 10,000 Blackwell GPUs and be hosted by Taiwan’s National Center for High-Performance Computing.
- The rollout includes a new Taipei headquarters and support for sovereign AI projects like TAIDE and Taiwan AI RAP.
- TAIDE, one of the sovereign AI initiatives supported by the new system, is already powering multilingual chatbots and healthcare tools across Taiwan.
Nvidia is building one of the world’s most powerful AI supercomputers in Taiwan, part of a wider plan unveiled Monday that also includes a new headquarters in Taipei.
Speaking at the Computex trade show, CEO Jensen Huang revealed that Nvidia will work with Taiwan’s government and Foxconn’s Big Innovation Group to construct the new system, which will house over 10,000 of Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell GPUs.
The supercomputer will be deployed at the National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) and support Taiwan’s leading academic institutions and Nvidia’s key chip partner, TSMC, as per a company statement on Monday.
“We are growing beyond the limits of our current office [in Taiwan],” Huang said, debuting concept footage of the company’s upcoming “Constellation” HQ, designed to resemble a spacecraft landed in Taipei’s Beitou district.
The move comes as U.S. President Donald Trump pushes tech firms to onshore manufacturing, rolling back Biden-era export restrictions while cracking down on AI chip sales to China.
Nvidia has pledged to invest $500 billion in U.S. infrastructure, but Monday’s announcements show the company’s deep dependence on Taiwan’s supply chain and scientific institutions.
TAIDE up
According to Nvidia, the new system will deliver more than eight times the AI performance of the existing Taiwania 2.
It will feature HGX H200 nodes, Blackwell Ultra-based B300 systems, and GB200 NVL72 racks, all connected via Nvidia’s Quantum InfiniBand networking.
“The new NCHC supercomputer will drive breakthroughs in sovereign AI, quantum computing, and advanced scientific computation,” said NCHC Director General Chau-Lyan Chang.
Among the projects it will power TAIDE, a national effort to build large language models tuned to Taiwanese culture and language; a generative AI development platform called Taiwan AI RAP; and simulations in climate modeling, quantum chemistry, and epidemic prevention.
Nvidia’s CUDA-Q platform has already enabled researchers to run a record-breaking 784-qubit quantum simulation, according to the statement.
A new hybrid quantum-classical computing system is also in development.
Humain society
The Taiwan rollout follows Huang’s recent trip through the Gulf with President Trump, where Saudi Arabia committed to a $600 billion investment package spanning AI, energy, and infrastructure.
As part of that initiative, Nvidia agreed to supply at least 18,000 Blackwell GPUs to power “Humain,” a state-backed Saudi AI firm developing a 500-megawatt data center.
The company also unveiled NVLink Fusion, a new effort to let rival AI chips connect directly to Nvidia’s platform, aimed at locking its GPUs into the backbone of next-gen AI systems.
“Nothing gives me more joy than when you buy everything from Nvidia … but it gives me tremendous joy if you just buy something from Nvidia,” he said.
Nvidia (NVDA) is currently trading at $135.40, up 0.42% on the day, per Google Finance data.
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