Nvidia has Taiwan Semiconductor and many other parts of the island nation standardizing on its AI code.
Nvidia co-founder and chief executive Jensen Huang kicked off the annual Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan on Monday with several announcements showcasing how its technology is being deployed across the island nation. The sum total of the announcements is nothing less than Taiwan being a giant engine of Nvidia software.
Nvidia is “building accelerated computing and AI infrastructure in Taiwan,” the company said in a pre-briefing with media on Friday.
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The announcements are in keeping with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s focus on the rise of “sovereign AI,” where nation states build local computing resources for AI in order to have greater control over artificial intelligence and security.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world’s largest contract chip maker, and Nvidia’s manufacturing partner for most of its chips, is adopting Nvidia’s Grace CPU chips and BlackWell GPUs along with Nvidia programs design to simulate the chips, called “cuLitho,” to run some parts of chip production, including computational lithograph and chip inspection.
Taiwan Semi director for computer-aided design, Jeff Wu, said, “Our collaboration with Nvidia represents a significant advancement in semiconductor process simulation. The computational acceleration from CUDA-X libraries and Nvidia Grace Blackwell will expedite process development by simulating complex manufacturing processes and device behaviors at lower cost.”
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The country’s National Center for High-Performance Computing is using multiple Nvidia technologies to build its next supercomputer, including Nvidia HGX computer systems running the Grace-Blackwell chip combination connected by Nvidia’s Quantum Infiniband networking.
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