Data 2026-07

Sovereign AI

Announced commitments against government budgets and reported disbursements, by country.

Sovereign programme record · Taiwan · 2025–2029

Taiwan: AI New Ten Major Construction + NCHC Sovereign Compute: $6.20B announced · disbursement not on record

Every figure below derives from the same record the dashboard reads — this page is the programme as a citable object: the reconciliation with its denominator stated, the decomposition with its residual, and the dated evidence behind each claim.

Announced~$6.20B
Government-only floor$6.20B
Committed~$2.80B
Disbursed—
No disbursement figure on record.

The reconciliation. Four figures on one dollar scale, each bar a share of the largest. The reality ratio above divides disbursed by the government-only floor ($6.20B), and the field it divides by is stated so the division is reproducible. A hatched track is an absent figure carried with its reason — a government that does not publish disbursement is a finding, not a zero. Tildes mark estimated figures.

Pipeline stage: Deployed (primary-verified evidence) — 1,703 accelerators tracked. The stage is a Scrutica derivation (tier 4), computed from the figures above, never asserted by the source.

What the announced figure is made of

Component	Kind	Amount
Identified science/tech + public construction + NDC budget (NT$90B)	Government	$2.80B
Remaining NT$110B from broader AI New Ten Major Construction plan	Government	$3.40B

The residualThe amount-bearing components sum to $6.20B against the $6.20B headline — they reconcile.

Hardware on record

Model	Count	Status	Owner
NVIDIA HGX H200	1,700	operational	NCHC (government)
NVIDIA GB200 NVL72	2	operational	NCHC (government)
NVIDIA HGX B300 (Blackwell Ultra)	1	operational	NCHC (government)

Empanelled partners · 6

Partner	GPUs	Model	Stage	Award
NVIDIA	—	NVIDIA HGX H200 + GB200 NVL72 + HGX B300 + Quantum InfiniBand	deployed	Primary source · 2025-05-19
Hon Hai	—	—	empanelled	Press or analyst · 2025-11-11
Wistron NeWeb	—	—	empanelled	Press or analyst · 2025-11-11
Ubilink	—	—	empanelled	Press or analyst · 2025-11-11
Advanced Micro Devices	—	—	empanelled	Press or analyst · 2025-11-11
Central Weather Administration	—	—	empanelled	Press or analyst · 2025-11-11

External dependence

NVIDIA hardware: high · TSMC fabrication: high · US technology: high · BIS jurisdiction reach: medium. Dependence levels are Scrutica classifications (tier 4) from the programme’s own disclosures — which hardware it buys, where it fabricates, and whose export jurisdiction its supply chain crosses.

Named partners: NCHC, NSTC, NDC, NVIDIA, AMD, Hon Hai (Foxconn), Wistron NeWeb, Visionbay.ai.

Over 1,700 H200 GPUs + GB200 + B300 operational at Tainan. 480 PFLOPS target by 2029. Taiwan Compute Alliance includes Foxconn, AMD, NVIDIA. TAIDE national Mandarin LLM in development. Ironic TSMC dynamic: world's dominant foundry is headquartered here, yet the government must buy NVIDIA GPUs fabricated by its own national champion. 2026 budget crisis: NT$30B+ first-year AI funding frozen in Legislative Yuan amid KMT/TPP opposition blockade. AI Basic Act passed Dec 2025 but implementation funding remains uncertain.

What this record flags about itself · 7

NCHC Tainan system with H200/GB200/B300 confirmed operational
NT$200B (~$6.2B) plan from secondary/newsletter source but consistent with NSTC statements
NT$90B committed from identified budget sources
The budget carries a risk: the 2026 central government budget, including NT$30B+ of first-year AI funding, was stalled in the opposition-dominated Legislative Yuan as of March 2026 (digitimes.com, taipeitimes.com).
KMT and TPP blocking budget reviews over military pay and pension disputes — AI budget is collateral damage, not the target
AI Basic Act passed December 2025 (focustaiwan.tw), but implementation funding is hostage to broader budget gridlock
TWD 31.1B 2026 budget proposal for AI (bowergroupasia.com) — pending legislative approval

The evidence trail

7 cited sources

Ten AI Initiatives (NDC official) — Primary source · accessed 2026-04-07
NCHC supercomputer page — Primary source · accessed 2026-04-07
Tainan sovereign AI data center opening — Press or analyst · accessed 2026-03-28
NVIDIA Taiwan research supercomputer announcement — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28
NT$200B plan details — the research file records this source as unverified (secondary/newsletter source; NT$200B figure consistent with NSTC official statements) — Press or analyst · accessed 2026-03-28
Taiwan Compute Alliance and strategy analysis — Press or analyst · accessed 2026-03-28
Taiwan AI RAP (TAIWAN AI RAP): government-funded AI application development platform — Primary source · no accessed date on record

Machine surfacesThis record is one object under one id: the evidence-trail feed and the derivation-chain export serialize the same programme this page renders.