{"id":105728,"date":"2025-08-24T03:40:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/105728\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T03:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:40:03","slug":"taiwanese-laptop-maker-asus-subsidiary-builds-supercomputer-to-boost-islands-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/105728\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese laptop maker Asus\u2019 subsidiary builds supercomputer to boost island\u2019s capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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":2,"featured_media":105729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[2293,182,1204,18860,70067,2356,144,191,676,70070,70075,70071,23887,70072,39069,70074,70073,4321,66220,70065,2047,3997,21259,3998,70068,74,70066,3999,70069],"class_list":["post-105728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-computing","tag-agentic-ai","tag-ai","tag-asia-pacific","tag-asus","tag-asus-cloud","tag-california","tag-china","tag-computing","tag-data-centre","tag-december","tag-digital-twin","tag-el-capitan","tag-graphics-processing-units","tag-hewlett-packard-enterprises","tag-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory","tag-ministry-of-digital-affairs","tag-national-centre-for-high-performance-computing","tag-nvidia","tag-petaflops","tag-peter-wu","tag-quantum-computing","tag-singapore","tag-supercomputer","tag-taiwan","tag-taiwan-ai-cloud","tag-technology","tag-top500","tag-vietnam","tag-viettel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}