Taiwan's NCHC Completes AMD Platform Procurement, Expands TAIWAN AI RAP with Fine-Tuning Services
Taiwan's national supercomputing center adds AMD hardware and new AI development tools to its sovereign AI infrastructure.
According to iThome, Zhang Chaoliang, director of the National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) in Taiwan, announced that the center has completed the bidding process for AMD computing platforms. This move introduces an alternative to existing GPU architectures for AI workloads. The NCHC currently operates Nano 4 and Nano 5 platforms for model training and plans to adopt next-generation architectures like Vera Rubin.
As part of its "Sovereign AI" strategy, the NCHC's TAIWAN AI RAP platform saw user numbers nearly double over the past year. Zhang stated that the platform added fine-tuning services this year, allowing users to adapt models with their own data. The center is also shifting focus toward supporting Agent development and verification, planning a B2B2C model where partners deliver applications to end-users.
Technically, Academia Sinica and Chung Yuan Christian University demonstrated TAIWAN GBA, a behavior recognition system based on YOLOv9 that identifies actions like falls and fights, addressing limitations in Vision-Language Models (VLMs). The NCHC aims to combine its compute power, Academia Sinica's research, and local corpora to develop multimodal AI tailored to Taiwan's needs.