A unit of Taiwanese consumer electronics giant Asus is developing a supercomputer, powered by Nvidia chips, that is expected to boost the island’s computing capacity by at least 50 per cent, according to a senior executive. That infrastructure, a collaboration between Taiwan AI Cloud and the island’s 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...