The 29th Top500 Supercomputing list was announced at the ISC’07 International Super Computing Conference, Dresden, Germany, on June 27th 2007 Taiwan time. The next-generation supercomputing platform built by the NCHC was ranked 35th on the Top500 list due to its advanced computing capabilities. This is the first time Taiwan has been ranked within the top 35 on the list. With this announcement, Taiwan's rise in computing capability has now surpassed China (ranked 43rd) and South Korea (ranked 53rd) and is now only second to Japan's Tokyo Institute of Technology (ranked 14th) in Asia.