Google's release of its Gemini 3 large language model (LLM) in November—trained primarily on the company's in-house TPU chips and performing at or above the level of OpenAI's ChatGPT—has become a catalyst for a broader strategic push. According to overseas reports, Google is now using its newest advances in AI models to pitch major clients, including Meta, on deploying TPU-based systems inside Google-operated data centers.
The US Department of Defense has awarded Hewlett Packard Enterprise a ten-year, US$931 million contract to build a hybrid cloud system that will support the Pentagon's expanding artificial intelligence and data processing needs. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) will deploy HPE's GreenLake Private Cloud platform across multiple high-security military data centers to strengthen the department's classified computing capabilities.
International Integrated Systems, Inc. (IISI), a subsidiary of Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), began trading on the Taiwan Stock Exchange on November 25 at its offering price of NT$46 per share.
Acer subsidiary Altos Computing began trading on Taiwan's over-the-counter market on the 21st, advancing its bid to serve rising enterprise demand for AI computing. The company specializes in AI platforms and high-performance servers as workloads extend beyond hyperscale training environments to enterprise deployments of agentic AI for on-premise inference and practical use cases.

