TAIPEI (Reuters) -Alphabet's Google on Thursday opened in Taiwan its biggest artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure hardware engineering centre outside of the United States, in what Taiwan's president said was a show of confidence in the island as a trustworthy technology partner. Taiwan is home to the world's largest contract chipmaker, TSMC, whose chips are widely used by the companies like Nvidia that are driving the global AI boom. "The technology developed and tested in Taipei is deployed in Google data centres around the world, which in turn power Google devices that billions of people rely on everyday," said Aamer Mahmood, Google's vice president of engineering. "This is not just an investment in an office, it's an investment in an ecosystem, a testament to Taiwan's place as an

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