In May 2025, Huida signed a memorandum of cooperation with Shin Kong Life Insurance, and Huang Renxun subsequently publicly announced the selection of Beishike as Taiwan's overseas headquarters base.
NVIDIA has become a core enterprise in the global AI industry, and Taiwan is also actively striving to play a more important role in this AI wave. Huida's overseas headquarters has decided to settle in Taiwan. Looking back at the entire cooperation process, the central government began the layout as early as 2020. From taking the initiative to contact Huida and negotiating for more than a year to obtain an R&D center, to formulating subsidies and assisting in the construction of AI supercomputers, and requiring Huida to cooperate with Taiwanese companies and academic institutions, the Ministry of Economic Affairs spent many years gradually facilitating the global AI giant to expand investment in Taiwan.
Through the "forward-looking infrastructure budget", the central government has subsidized Huida to set up R&D centers in Taiwan, build supercomputers, and invest in AI talent training and other projects. Without the forward-looking budget to support Huida's "Big A+ R&D Subsidy Program" of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Huida may not have established an R&D center in Taiwan, and it will be difficult to deepen the subsequent plan to expand and build overseas headquarters in Taiwan. Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan, who is currently fighting for re-election, tried to boycott the "Special Ordinance on Forward-looking Infrastructure Construction" when he was a legislator. If it succeeded at that time, Huida's development in Taiwan may be hindered.
The central government's "forward-looking infrastructure planning" is mainly through the "Leading Enterprise R&D Deepening Plan" (referred to as the Big A+ Plan) promoted by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and a special budget is allocated to support Huida and other international high-tech giants in carrying out forward-looking technology research and development and investment in Taiwan.
According to relevant planning information, the central government began to contact Huida as early as 2020. At that time, the Ministry of Economic Affairs had established contact with the Huida team, and the two parties were communicating on the possibility of cooperation in Taiwan's information communications industry and medical field. In December 2021, the Ministry of Economic Affairs officially approved Huida's "Artificial Intelligence Innovation R&D Center Plan" and provided subsidies through the "Big A+ Plan", which became an important starting point for the central government to support Huida's layout in Taiwan.
The total funding for this project reaches 24.337 billion yuan, of which 6.7 billion yuan is government subsidy, all of which is funded by the budget related to forward-looking infrastructure construction. The project period is until February 2027. The government hopes that by subsidizing major international technology companies to invest in forward-looking technology research and development in Taiwan, it will attract companies to expand investment, increase demand for high-level R&D talents, and promote the upgrading of the local technology industry.
With the support of the plan, Huida has established Asia-Pacific's first AI innovation R&D center in Taiwan, and plans to recruit a team of 1,000 people to invest in the research and development of forward-looking technologies such as Omniverse. In addition, Huida has also built the "Taipei-1" supercomputer in Kaohsiung to provide some computing resources to domestic academic research institutions and start-up teams.
In October 2022, the then Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Meihua led a delegation to Silicon Valley in the United States, visited Huida's headquarters and met with CEO Huang Renxun to continue to deepen cooperation between the two parties. With the rapid development of AI technology, the cooperation between Taiwan and Huida has gradually expanded from a single research and development project to supercomputers, AI applications and supply chain cooperation.
Until 2024, Huida began to negotiate with Shin Kong Life Insurance, hoping to obtain the development rights of T17 and T18 land in Taipei Shilin Science and Technology Park (North Shike). In May 2025, Huida signed a memorandum of cooperation with Shin Kong Life Insurance, and Huang Renxun subsequently publicly announced the selection of Beishike as Taiwan's overseas headquarters base.
