MediaTek’s new AI research centre harnesses innovative cooling and scaling for edge computing

MediaTek has launched a cutting-edge AI research and development data centre in Miaoli County, featuring advanced NVIDIA hardware, immersion cooling, and sustainable energy solutions, signalling a significant push into high-performance and edge AI computing.

MediaTek has opened a new research and development data centre in Tongluo Science Park, Miaoli County, in a move that underscores how fiercely chipmakers are competing for artificial intelligence computing power. According to the company, the facility is intended to support both edge AI and cloud AI work, and it is being positioned as a core platform for future product development.

The centre has been built in stages, with three phases planned and each expected to draw about 15MW of power, giving the site a total planned capacity of 45MW. MediaTek says the installation is built around NVIDIA DGX B200 systems and a DGX SuperPOD cluster, which it describes as a foundation for large-scale model training and inference. NVIDIA says DGX SuperPOD is designed for high-performance AI workloads and is built to be scalable for training and inference at enterprise level.

MediaTek claims the new setup has lifted AI training performance by 40%, while its inference stack, including NVIDIA NIM and TensorRT-LLM, has improved inference speed by 40% and increased token throughput by 60%. The company also says the system can process up to 138 billion tokens a month and complete more than 24,000 model-training iterations, indicating the scale of compute it is now bringing to bear on AI development.

The most unusual feature of the site is its use of single-phase immersion cooling, which submerges servers in a non-conductive liquid rather than relying on conventional air cooling. MediaTek says that approach raises cooling efficiency by 2.6 times and brings power usage effectiveness down to 1.1. The company also says it has installed 235kW of solar panels and is using recycled water for cooling, while the building itself was designed to the highest diamond-grade green-building standard and includes 2N redundant power systems and backup generators to keep operations running through outages.

General manager Chen Guanzhou said the investment reflects MediaTek’s push into high-performance computing and its wider ambitions in AI, Wi-Fi 7 and 8, 5G satellite communications, 6G, advanced process technologies and advanced packaging. He said the new facility is meant to back both the company’s growth plans and its sustainability commitments as the industry shifts more of its AI work from the cloud to the edge.

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