Has Taiwan given up on supercomputing
Yu-Tzu Chiu · IEEE Spectrum · 2015
A quick glance at the new ranking of top supercomputers reveals a surprising showing by one of the world's technological powerhouses: Taiwan does not possess a single machine powerful enough to make the Top500.org list. While there are many nations that don't make the list, Taiwan is peculiar in that it has such an outsized grip on the computer chip industry. What's more, its political rival, China, not only has the world's top machine, it now has more ranking supercomputers than any nation except the United States.