ASUS Provides AI Development Infrastructure and Cloud Computing Services for National AI Project in Taiwan

2018/06/11

Collaborative, cross-industry project aims to strengthen Taiwan's international competitiveness for providing total AI solutions



Taipei, Taiwan, 31 May, 2018 — ASUS today announced that it will take part in the largest artificial intelligence (AI) project in Taiwan for the National Center for High-Performance Computing of the National Applied Research Laboratories, the top supercomputing center in Taiwan. The goal of the project is to build the next generation of AI computing and big-data cloud platforms. ASUS will work in collaboration with a variety of partners from different industries — including telecommunications and AI integrators — to build the infrastructure for AI development and cloud computing.

A trusted name in computing

ASUS has over 20 years of experience in server and workstation production, expertise creating and managing cloud services, and experience developing AI software and customized hardware, making the company well positioned to create world-class AI infrastructure. In the new era of digital transformation brought about by the maturation of AI technology, ASUS has proposed 'ABC' — AI, big data, cloud computing — and IoT models to provide the best infrastructure and applied field solutions needed for the development of AI. The national AI project in Taiwan is expected to bring about an exchange of experience and meeting of ideas about the applied use of AI among different industries and aims to strengthen Taiwan's international competitiveness for providing total AI solutions.

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