Taiwan’s First AI PC Classroom Opens at Tunghai University — With an investment of nearly NT$100 million, Tunghai joins forces with NVIDIA and ASUS to spark an AI education revolution. Taichung Deputy Mayor hails Tunghai as “the new pearl of smart applic
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Tunghai University inaugurated Taiwan’s first AI PC Classroom and announced plans to invest approximately NT$100 million to purchase additional AI PCs, ASUS advanced equipment, and an NVIDIA GB200 server, aiming to build a comprehensive AI-enabled smart campus and become a benchmark for AI-based practical education in Taiwan. NVIDIA Associate Director Chu Yi-Wei stated that seeing Tunghai’s determination to become the best AI university, NVIDIA will jointly promote the “AI University” initiative with Tunghai. Taichung Deputy Mayor Cheng Chao-Hsin also praised Tunghai as the “new pearl” of the city’s AI and robotics development.
Tunghai University inaugurated Taiwan’s first AI PC Classroom and announced a NT$100 million investment to purchase AI PCs, ASUS equipment, and build a smart AI campus.
Tunghai University has reached another milestone in its long-term development in the AI field. Following her donation of an AI NB Classroom last year, alumna Ms. Lai Cheng Chiu, who resides in the United States, generously donated 75 high-end AI PCs this year to establish the nation’s first “Yu-Chai AI PC Classroom” in collaboration with ASUS, in memory of her mother, Ms. Lai Chiang Yu-Chai, whose selfless love inspired this contribution. The classroom incorporates AI accelerator card technology to overcome hardware limitations, enabling students to directly train large language models and realize the vision of “AI Tunghai, Generating the Future.”
Alumna Ms. Lai Cheng-Chiu, after donating the AI NB Classroom last year, generously donated 75 AI PCs this year in memory of her mother, Ms. Lai Chiang Yu-Chai.
President Chang Kuo-En noted that in recent years, Tunghai has actively promoted AI innovation and interdisciplinary talent cultivation. Including the “Yu-Chai AI PC Classroom,” the university has now established five AI-dedicated classrooms and plans to install NVIDIA GB200 servers and related facilities to further enhance the university’s AI computing power. This will support students in training language models, conducting inference, and applying generative AI. He emphasized, “The mission of a university is to cultivate digital talents capable of facing future challenges. This generous act of empowerment symbolizes handing over the key to the AI future to every student. It represents not only a hardware upgrade but also a revolution in teaching methods, allowing Tunghai students to stand at the forefront of AI applications and seamlessly connect with industry trends.”
President Chang Kuo-En emphasized that the university’s mission is to cultivate digital talents for future challenges—this act of empowerment symbolizes handing the key to AI’s future to every student.
The inauguration ceremony for the “Yu-Chai AI PC Classroom” was held on the morning of July 1 at the Office of Library and Information Services, with many distinguished guests in attendance. Among them were Taichung Deputy Mayor Cheng Chao-Hsin, Director Lin Ku-Lung, Deputy Director Kuo Ming-Chou, ASUS Chairman Lin Fu-Neng, Phison Electronics Associate Director Tsai Hui-Chen, NVIDIA Associate Director Chu Yi-Wei, and Chairman Lin Chih-Ming, along with other prominent guests.
Deputy Mayor Cheng Chao-Hsin remarked, “Under the leadership of President Chang Kuo-En, Tunghai has advanced from the AI NB Classroom to today’s AI PC Classroom and collaborated with Georgia Tech to develop a robotics hub. With the upcoming acquisition of the NVIDIA GB200 server, Tunghai’s commitment to advancing world-class AI education is evident. The city government looks forward to closer collaboration with Tunghai to jointly promote the City of Robots and nurture future talents.”
Taichung Deputy Mayor Cheng Chao-Hsin praised Tunghai as the “new pearl” in promoting AI and robotics in the city.
ASUS Chairman Lin Fu-Neng stated that following last year’s establishment of the “Yu-Chai AI NB Classroom” using the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 laptop, ASUS is honored to once again participate with the ASUS G700TF AI PC. This model is equipped with a Core Ultra 9 285K processor, 64GB of memory, a 2TB SSD, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070Ti Prime 16GB GPU, making it one of the most advanced AI desktop computers on the market, designed specifically for large-model training and generative AI development.
The “Yu-Chai AI PC Classroom” incorporates AI accelerator technology, enabling students to directly train large language models and realize “AI Tunghai, Generating the Future.”
Director of Library and Information Services Yang Chao-Tung explained that in the past, training large AI models relied on high-end servers with steep costs, limiting student access to hands-on practice. The new AI PC Classroom at Tunghai, powered by the ASUS G700TF and integrated with Phison’s aiDAPTIV+ AI accelerator card, effectively distributes computing loads and overcomes memory bottlenecks, enabling students to directly conduct model training, inference, and fine-tuning. The “Yu-Chai AI PC Classroom,” located in the Smart Technology Building (ST023), is equipped with local AI tools such as AnythingLLM and Stable Diffusion, and will be fully open to all Tunghai faculty and students.
Director Yang Chao-Tung noted that the AI PC Classroom allows model training, inference, and fine-tuning, and will be fully open to all students and faculty.
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