NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan -- Google is expanding its research and development hub for hardware in Taiwan as the American search engine giant doubles down on its commitment to its device ecosystem.
"Taiwan is Google's largest hardware R&D hub outside of the U.S.," Elmer Peng, vice president of hardware at Google, told Nikkei Asia in an exclusive interview on Thursday. "As of 2024, we've increased 20-fold the workforce in the past 10 years in Taiwan, and our team continues to grow. ... We are really serious about building an ecosystem."
