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Nvidia will invest $150 billion a year to make Taiwan an AI "epicenter."

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Taiwan suspects Nvidia chips smuggled to China via Japan, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/3RwyKN6

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-- Reuters (@reuters.com) 3:15 AM · May 27, 2026

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... "This is where the chips come, packaging comes, this is where the systems are made, this is where AI supercomputers were created," Huang said. "The number of partners we work with here in Taiwan, incredible."

As Reuters reported, the substantial investments will be used to create a new Taiwan headquarters for Nvidia, which Huang expects will drive so much AI innovation that the partnership will cement Taiwan as "the world's tech manufacturing hub for a long time." That ambitious project will be operational by 2030, Nvidia anticipates, after breaking ground this year.

"Four years ago, five years ago, Nvidia was spending about 10, 15 billion dollars a year in Taiwan," Huang said at a ceremony celebrating the launch of the company's new Taiwan base. "Now we're spending 100, going to 150 billion dollars in Taiwan each year." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-28 02:48 PM | Reply

The Zionization of Taiwan continues.

#2 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-05-28 08:13 PM | Reply

@#2 ... The Zionization of Taiwan continues. ...

Maybe, maybe not. I'll choose not to go there for the nonce.

My concern with this move by Nvidia centers more upon making Taiwan the ~AI Center~ of the world when China is focused upon removing Taiwan from the world stage.

Will this latest move by Nvidia only make China want to invade Taiwan even more?



#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-28 08:47 PM | Reply

One catches glimpses of what the big boys of the oligarch caste are doing, and...one feels distrust,, to the max. Most Americans are fine with their limited knowledge of computer science and of the internet, but certainly AI will be run by and for those who care about hauling in all the money in the universe, from the yokels.
Yokels like me...

#4 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-05-29 06:35 AM | Reply

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