(Central News Agency reporter Wu Jiahao, Taipei, 25th) President Tsai Ing-wen attended the opening ceremony of Google Taiwan’s new office today and said that with the completion of Google’s hardware R&D center, she hopes to enable Taiwan to develop in chips, 6G and AI through more comprehensive and in-depth cooperation. (artificial intelligence) and other application fields, continue to exert key strengths and make more contributions to the world.
President Tsai said that he was very happy to witness the opening of Google’s hardware R&D center and new office building in Taiwan today; he still remembers the enthusiasm and vitality he felt when he visited Google’s Taiwan office in 2019. At that time, Google expressed that it would continue to invest in Taiwan and build a mega-megabyte platform. Yuan industry. The hardware R&D center completed today makes Taiwan the largest hardware R&D base after the U.S. headquarters. Google’s continued construction in Taiwan highlights the government’s efforts to enhance Taiwan’s competitiveness and let the world see Taiwan.
President Tsai pointed out that over the past eight years, the government has promoted the 5+2 industrial innovation plan, six core strategic industries and various infrastructure constructions to promote Taiwan’s progress and development. Today, Taiwan’s industrial clusters are more complete, the supply chain has also shown resilience during the epidemic, and various high-quality investment conditions have been highly valued by foreign investors. From 2016 to last year, the average annual foreign investment in Taiwan reached US$10.3 billion (approximately NT$335.5 billion), much higher than the US$5.36 billion from 2008 to 2015; last year, foreign investment in Taiwan exceeded US$11.25 billion.
President Tsai stressed that when more and more foreign companies choose to invest in Taiwan, Taiwan will continue to occupy a key position in the supply chain. Taiwan’s international visibility continues to increase. Thanks to Google for promoting the Smart Taiwan project in 2018, assisting the upgrade of Taiwan’s information industry, enhancing industrial smart applications, and expanding the scale of Taiwan’s digital economy.
President Tsai said that Google also implements social care and cooperates with non-governmental organizations to help primary and secondary school students obtain more learning resources and shorten the education gap between urban and rural areas. In the face of false information and cyber attacks, Google has cooperated with the Institute of Information Security to help companies strengthen their information security protection capabilities and cultivate local information security talents.
Google today opened its second new hardware R&D office building in Banqiao, New Taipei City, continuing to bring more growth opportunities to Taiwan in the field of technology R&D and innovation. Since the completion of the first hardware R&D office building in 2021, Taiwan has become Google’s largest hardware R&D base outside of its U.S. headquarters, and it is also a strategic location for the development of the global hardware industry.
Peng Yujun, vice president of Google Hardware, said that since Google established its first office in Taiwan in 2006, Google’s operations in Taiwan have continued to expand, attracting talents from all over the world to join. Over the past 10 years, the size of the Google Taiwan team has grown more than 20 times, bringing together employees from more than 30 countries and regions. (Editor: Zhang Liangzhi) 1130425
