Dan Nystedt(@dnystedt):Three of Taiwan’s top chip design houses have invested in new data centers for more R&D compute, media report: -MediaTek (smartphone chips, custom ASICs, more): Opened the first of three phases at its new Tongluo R&D data center in May, aimed at R&D across AI and high performance computing, advanced node chip designs and advanced packaging. -Global Unichip (GUC, custom ASICs, more): Its Zhunan data center began trials in the 2nd quarter and is for chip design work on advanced 3nm, 2nm and below nodes, custom ASICs and advanced packaging design. -Novatek (custom ASICs, more): Broke ground July 28 on an NT$2.9B R&D data center for own product designs and custom ASIC design service. $NVDA $GOOGL $MSFT $META #semiconductors

2026.08.19 00:50

Three of Taiwan’s top chip design houses have invested in new data centers for more R&D compute, media report: -MediaTek (smartphone chips, custom ASICs, more): Opened the first of three phases at its new Tongluo R&D data center in May, aimed at R&D across AI and high performance computing, advanced node chip designs and advanced packaging. -Global Unichip (GUC, custom ASICs, more): Its Zhunan data center began trials in the 2nd quarter and is for chip design work on advanced 3nm, 2nm and below nodes, custom ASICs and advanced packaging design. -Novatek (custom ASICs, more): Broke ground July 28 on an NT$2.9B R&D data center for own product designs and custom ASIC design service. $NVDA $GOOGL $MSFT $META #semiconductors#