{"id":101506,"date":"2020-01-28T05:43:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T13:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/taiwan-is-opening-a-giant-ai-focused-business-park"},"modified":"2020-01-28T05:43:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T13:43:20","slug":"taiwan-is-opening-a-giant-ai-focused-business-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/taiwan-is-opening-a-giant-ai-focused-business-park","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Is Opening A Giant AI-Focused Business Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/taiwan-is-opening-a-giant-ai-focused-business-park.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has been the world\u2019s hardware hub for decades, so the shift toward AI makes the most of the existing inexpensive engineering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ralphjennings\/2017\/04\/23\/taiwans-once-mighty-high-tech-sector-is-falling-behind-because-of-low-pay\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ralphjennings\/2017\/04\/23\/taiwans-once-mighty-high-tech-sector-is-falling-behind-because-of-low-pay\/\">talent<\/a>. A refocus on AI, however, reduces reliance on hardware, which can easily be made somewhere else, such as China, at lower costs. Multinational tech companies have already shown interest in tapping Taiwan\u2019s talent in software, including AI.<\/p>\n<p>To move things along further, the government of Hsinchu County, near Taipei, will open a 126,000-square-meter (about 1.3 million square feet) AI business park near one of Taiwan\u2019s major all-purpose high-tech zones and two top universities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&amp;lsqb;The park&amp;rsqb; will not just help &amp;lsqb;promote&amp;rsqb; industry-academia cooperation, but also let AI-oriented startups and companies have a demo space to verify AI product services,\u201d says Shirley Tsai, a research manager with IDC Taiwan\u2019s enterprise solution group. \u201cIt will be helpful as well to attract the companies who are interested in the AI field and then accelerating the AI ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan has been the world\u2019s hardware hub for decades, so the shift toward AI makes the most of the existing inexpensive engineering talent. A refocus on AI, however, reduces reliance on hardware, which can easily be made somewhere else, such as China, at lower costs. Multinational tech companies have already shown interest in tapping Taiwan\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,38,1490,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-engineering","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}