Nvidia is joining forces with Foxconn to build Taiwan’s first supercomputer. Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics, will implement the system through its subsidiary Big Innovation Company, which specializes in advanced tech solutions for enterprise. The supercomputer will leverage 10,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, providing “orders-of-magnitude faster performance, compared with previous-generation systems,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in his Computex keynote. Huang also announced a new initiative that will let companies build semi-custom chips and talked-up desktop supercomputers in the works with Acer and Asus.

The Foxconn project will significantly expand AI computing availability in Taiwan, according to a Nvidia announcement that says the Taiwan government will invest in the effort through its National Science and Technology Council. Researchers at chipmaking giant TSMC are among the first in line to use the new system for research and development.

“By building this AI factory with Nvidia and TSMC, we are laying the groundwork to connect people in Taiwan as well as government organizations and enterprises,” Young Liu, chairman and CEO of Foxconn, explained in Nvidia’s announcement.

“We are delighted to partner with Foxconn and Taiwan to help build Taiwan’s AI infrastructure, and to support TSMC and other leading companies to advance innovation in the age of AI and robotics,” Huang added, emphasizing that “AI has ignited a new industrial revolution — science and industry will be transformed.”

In his Computex keynote, “Huang said the company is planning a new hub in Taiwan, calling it an ideal nexus for AI advancement,” reports The Wall Street Journal, noting that Nvidia’s Taiwan news comes “as the industry weighs developments around U.S. tariffs that threaten supply chains.”

WSJ writes that “the tariff landscape seems more inviting for tech players now, given the U.S.-China trade truce and the Trump administration’s scrapping of so-called ‘AI diffusion’ rule that would have limited purchases of U.S. chips by other countries,” qualifying the observation by noting that “it remains to be seen at what level tariffs and export controls will settle, and in what form.”

Last week, CNBC reported that Nvidia will supply thousands of AI chips to Saudi Arabia. The company also plans “to open a research-and-development center in Shanghai to keep a foothold in China as the U.S. tightens export controls,” WSJ writes.

VentureBeat writes that as part of the Taiwan deal, Big Innovation Company becomes a Nvidia Cloud Partner with “plans to participate in the Nvidia DGX Cloud Lepton marketplace.”