Policy
Taiwan's National Science Council Commits NT$10B to AI Research↗
via Taipei Times
Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council has announced NT$10 billion in dedicated AI research funding over three years. Priority areas include semiconductor-AI co-design, Mandarin language AI, and AI applications for Taiwan's manufacturing-heavy economy. The funding includes establishing five new AI research centers at national universities and a compute grant program giving researchers access to NVIDIA GPU clusters hosted at NCHC.
Analysis — Semiconductor-AI co-design as the top priority is Taiwan playing to its unique strength — no other country can integrate AI research with cutting-edge chip fabrication at this level. The NCHC compute grants democratize access beyond TSMC-adjacent labs.