OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly took a quiet trip to Taiwan this week to hold meetings with representatives of TSMC and Foxconn and discuss collaborating on chip design and manufacturing, as well as AI server infrastructure development, according to data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20251001PD219/openai-ceo-ai-chip-taiwan-infrastructure.html” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20251001PD219/openai-ceo-ai-chip-taiwan-infrastructure.html” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Digitimes. These kinds of partnerships will be crucial if OpenAI is to meet its commitments as part of major data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-and-oracle-ink-deal-to-build-massive-stargate-data-center-total-project-will-power-2-million-ai-chips-stargate-partner-softbank-not-involved-in-the-project” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-and-oracle-ink-deal-to-build-massive-stargate-data-center-total-project-will-power-2-million-ai-chips-stargate-partner-softbank-not-involved-in-the-project”>initiatives like Stargate, to build hundreds of billions of dollars worth of data centers and data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-is-building-100-ai-factories-jensens-50-year-gambit-begins” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-is-building-100-ai-factories-jensens-50-year-gambit-begins”>”AI factories,” over the next few years.
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