The second and last keynote of day 2 for Computex comes from Intel. And, with close-rival AMD not presenting at this year’s show, Intel is the sole x86 vendor holding a keynote this year.
As with the other keynote addresses at this year’s show, Intel’s main focus will be AI, with CEO Lip-Bu Tan delivering a keynote titled “The Next Era of AI.” Among other things, Tan will be discussing Intel’s vision for what they term the “Intelligence Era” and what it means to engineer AI across the client, edge, and data center markets.
Intel Computex 2026 Preview
After skipping Computex 2025 and leaving AMD as the sole x86 vendor keynoting at the show, for 2026 Intel and AMD have switched places. This year AMD is sitting things out while Intel is presenting a keynote.
As with all of the other keynotes at this year’s show, the main theme of Intel’s presentation is going to be AI. This is something of a sore spot for Intel – or at least, Intel’s investors – as the company has largely missed out on the explosion in demand for GPUs to power AI data center. More recently, though, the company has been benefitting from the emergence of agentic AI systems, which has driven up demand for data center CPUs to orchestrate these agents and actually carry out the workloads they generate.
Intel’s keynote will be a bit more unusual in that the company did not hold back its major data center hardware announcements for the keynote, opting to release those at the start of the show. This included the launch of Intel’s E835 Ethernet controller, the launch of Intel’s many-core 18A-fabbed Xeon 6+ CPU (Clearwater Forest), and confirming that the next-generation big-core Xeon silicon, Diamond Rapids, will not be released until 2027. As well, the company has also already previewed its forthcoming data center GPU, Crescent Island, which will be based on Intel’s Xe3P architecture, backed by LPDDR5X memory, and will be shipping in a 350 Watt PCIe card form factor.
Consequently, we are not expecting Intel’s keynote to feature much in the way of hardware or roadmap reveals. Which is not to say that the company will not tease something like Jaguar Shores, its upcoming high-end data center AI accelerator, but Intel has already largely presented/disclosed its Computex 2026 data center hardware. Meanwhile on the consumer side of matters, Intel has previously launched its complete Panther Lake (and Wildcat Lake) stack for mobile, and announced its Arc G3 products for gaming handhelds. Though being that it’s Computex, we can’t rule out that Intel will quickly promote some of the devices partners have made using these chips.
With that in mind, Tan’s keynote is set to focus on how Intel is a heavily diversified company with a broad reach into the data center, client, and edge markets, giving them a breadth of reach that most other companies lack – and how that presents them with an advantage. In other words, it is likely to be more of a visionary keynote than a product keynote.
The Intel keynote is scheduled to run for 60 minutes, and will kick off at 10:30pm PT/01:30am ET/01:30om CST/05:30 UTC.
Intel Computex 2026 Keynote Coverage Live
We’re just two minutes from showtime for the Intel keynote. People are taking their seats, and according to Patrick, the venue is “PACKED.”
Intel is the largest PC CPU vendor by volume, so the company (still) carries a lot of weight in Taiwan.
And here we go. Intel is starting things off by rolling an intro video about silicon being the heart of modern technology.
As well as the importance of ecosystems (a very partner-centric message).
Here’s Lip-Bu Tan.
Apparently Tan went on a bit of a hike for some local sight-seeing earlier. So he’s a bit sore.
Intel and the other major players in the Silicon Valley were started nearly six decades ago.
Meanwhile Tan has a vision of Taiwan becoming Silicon Island.
And Tan is continuing to talk about the history of tech investment and venture funds in Taiwan. Tan is excited to be a part of all of this.
Taiwan plays a critical role in the PC ecosystem. OEMs, ODMs, partners, parts suppliers, and more are all there. And Tan is taking a moment to thank all the local partners.
Tan is also reflecting on the fact that he is the first Intel CEO that can speak Mandarin. So he considers himself part of the Taiwanese community.
At its heart, Intel is an engineering company. All the engineering groups report to Tan.
“We are just getting started. Stay tuned, we have a journey ahead of us.”
Every year Intel ships hundreds of millions of SoCs/CPUs.
This is spread across four market segments: PCs, edge & robotics (physical AI), data center, and emerging intelligence centers (e.g. AI).
And for each market they develop chips to meet the needs of each of those ecosystems.
First up is a talk on PCs.
Now on stage, Intel’s Alex
