Tokyo (SCCIJ) – Switzerland is building the world's most powerful supercomputer focused on artificial intelligence. The "Alps" system is designed for researchers and will come online 2023 as scheduled despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) is partnering with Hewlett Packard and Nvidia to combine classic supercomputing and AI technologies for superior performance. Switzerland's new supercomputer increases the speed of data processing for AI applications significantly ( CSCS). The new data center will replace CSCS's existing Piz Daint supercomputer and serve as a general-purpose system open to the broad community of researchers in Switzerland and the rest of the world.