Overview
- Alphabet’s Google formally launched an AI infrastructure hardware engineering centre in Taipei, its biggest such site outside the United States.
- The centre will integrate chips, including Google’s TPU processors, onto motherboards and servers to support the company’s global data centres.
- Google said its Taiwan infrastructure engineering team, established in 2020, has tripled in size, with several hundred staff planned for the new hub.
- Taiwan President Lai Ching-te praised the investment as recognition of the island’s reliability for secure and trustworthy AI, while U.S. envoy Raymond Greene said it strengthens bilateral economic ties.
- The move underscores Taiwan’s pivotal role in the semiconductor supply chain through TSMC, as Taipei continues warning about risks from Chinese-developed AI systems such as DeepSeek.