Taiwan deepens quantum technology research

2025/05/09

A cooperative project on quantum-inspired computing was recently launched as part of domestic efforts to transform academic research into substantive industry solutions, the Cabinet-level National Science and Technology Council said May 7 in Taipei City.

The initiative involves an NSTC-subsidized team working on digital annealing research and development and Taipei-based Compal Electronics, Inc. The team is led by Shu Yu-chen, associate professor at National Cheng Kung University’s Department of Mathematics in southern Taiwan’s Tainan City.

Quantum annealing aims to tackle complex problems that are beyond the capabilities of conventional computing to arrive at the best possible solution, the council said.

Shu’s project is applying various digital annealing techniques to areas such as combinatorial optimization, large-scale experimental design generation, micro-LED process optimization and pharmaceutical molecular design. Collaboration with Compal will enable the team to utilize the company’s GPU annealer to explore ways to attain higher quantum annealing efficiency through parallel processing, and the two sides will jointly investigate possible applications of the technology in a variety of fields.

The government places great emphasis on the strategic role of quantum computing and has integrated key technologies such as quantum algorithms and software engineering into its national technological development blueprint. The NSTC pledged to encourage more academic institutions to work with enterprises to conduct related research.


Source:  Taiwan Today (https://taiwantoday.tw/index.php)