‘AI INFRASTRUCTURE’:
The council minister mentioned that it could proceed to help home investments, with a deal with silicon photonics and copackaged optics
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By Lisa Wang / Staff reporter
The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) yesterday proposed a record technology budget of NT$176.8 billion (US$5.49 billion) for subsequent 12 months, aiming to enhance synthetic intelligence (AI) and cutting-edge applied sciences in Taiwan.
That could be a 6.2 p.c rise from this 12 months’s budget of NT$166.5 billion, council information confirmed.
“Taiwan has accumulated great strength in semiconductor and AI-related technologies over a long period. Those technological capabilities are not only the main growth behind the nation’s economy, but also major factors for Taiwan to play a crucial role in the world’s technology’s supply chain technology realignment,” NSTC Minister Wu Cheng-wen (吳誠文) mentioned.
Photo: Wu Po-hsuan, Taipei Times
To safeguard the nation’s technological benefits, the council would proceed to help home investments, specializing in high-performance computing, quantum computing, good robots, silicon photonics and AI sovereignty, Wu mentioned.
Silicon photonics and copackaged optics (CPO) have emerged as a significant focus among the many authorities’s “new 10 major AI infrastructure projects,” given their strategic significance in bettering information transmission speeds and lowering power consumption for AI server racks, the council mentioned.
It has set a purpose to construct a analysis and improvement platform to speed up the event of silicon photonics and CPO applied sciences within the subsequent 10 years, it mentioned.
The international silicon photonics-related market is predicted to develop to greater than US$100 billion by 2030, due to rising demand for AI purposes, in addition to larger information transmission pace necessities and calls for for decrease power use, the council mentioned.
The council additionally plans to enhance the superior packaging technology certification atmosphere to assist advance Taiwan’s CPO-related technology capabilities, it mentioned.
Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp (世界先進), MediaTek Inc (聯發科), Win Semiconductors Corp (穩懋) and Fiber Optic Communications Inc (上詮) in 2024 had been granted authorities subsidies to develop photonics built-in circuits, laser course of technology and high-speed digital built-in circuits, that are key components within the commercialization of CPO-related applied sciences, the Ministry of Economic Affairs mentioned.