National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) on Tuesday announced it is to open a branch in Kaohsiung for graduate studies in semiconductors and artificial intelligence (AI).
Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) and NYCU president Lin Chi-hung (林奇宏) jointly announced the new branch, which is likely to start accepting students from the 2025 academic year.
The campus is to be on the 2 hectares of land currently used by the Civil Service Development Institute and Garden Villa Hotel in Zuoying District (左營), only 1.7km from the high-speed rail and 3km from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, NYCU said.
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Kaohsiung has been attracting more high-tech companies to join the city’s established semiconductor chemical, packaging and testing firms, Chen said, adding that IBM, Microsoft, Qualcomm and other companies now all now have a presence in the city.
As most of Taiwan’s semiconductor talent is trained in six universities concentrated in the north, Kaohsiung signed an agreement with NYCU to bring a campus to southern Taiwan, he said.
Tech companies are ramping their investments in Kaohsiung, with more than 45,000 jobs expected to be added over the next five years, Kaohsiung Economic Development Bureau Director-General Liao Tai-hsiang (廖泰翔) said.
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A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off Taitung County at 1:09pm today, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. The hypocenter was 53km northeast of Taitung County Hall at a depth of 12.5km, CWA data showed. The intensity of the quake, which gauges the actual effect of a seismic event, measured 4 in Taitung County and Hualien County on Taiwan's seven-tier intensity scale, the data showed. The quake had an intensity of 3 in Nantou County, Chiayi County, Yunlin County, Kaohsiung and Tainan, the data showed. There were no immediate reports of damage following the quake.
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