Kicking off today is the annual Computex tradeshow in Taiwan. Home to countless system and device manufacturers, Computex is a cornucopia of consumer electronics, and these days is also the biggest PC-centric show of the year. And even though it takes place in June, barely half-way through the year, the show routinely sets the stage for the consumer and server products set to launch later in the year, in the tech industry’s critical third and fourth quarters.
There are several major keynotes during this year’s show. While AMD has passed on hosting a keynote this year – they are essentially smack-dab in the middle of their product cycles – Intel, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm and are all at the show. And, as the largest of the major tech companies at the show, it is perhaps only fitting that NVIDIA gets to kick things off with the first major keynote.
NVIDIA Computex 2026 Keynote Preview
As is typically the case, NVIDIA CEO (and home-grown Taiwanese rockstar) Jensen Huang will be headlining the company’s Computex-adjacent 2026 keynote. Technically part of the company’s coincidentally-timed GTC Taipei trade show, this is none the less the first major keynote of the Computex season – and with no rival programming, it is effectively the show’s opening keynote.
NVIDIA’s predominant business interest these days continues to be everything AI – backed by the explosion in demand for hardware for AI training and inference – and as you would expect, AI will be a big part of this year’s keynote.
In terms of products, NVIDIA just unloaded a number of major product announcements two months ago at the company’s exclusive conference, GTC 2026, so do not expect NVIDIA to have a ton of hardware announcements for Computex. Still, the company did not come to Taiwan empty-handed – and they are not being coy about it, either. On Friday the company posted a tweet to their account promising “A new era of PC.” and coordinates for the keynote venue in Taiwan.
A new era of PC.
25.0528, 121.5990
— NVIDIA (@nvidia) May 29, 2026
And to remove all doubt that we are talking about Windows PCs here, Microsoft’s Windows account posted the same message at the same time, while Arm also posted the same a few hours later.
Among the worst-kept secrets in the industry right now is that NVIDIA has been working on an SoC for consumer Windows-on-Arm devices, codenamed N1X. We will not read into the tea leaves too much ahead of the keynote, but NVIDIA has already laid the groundwork for such a chip with GB10 – the heart of the DGX Spark and other small form factor PCs – so it would seem that they intend to extend their reach. Just where they are reaching (and how much money they are reaching for) we will no doubt find out this evening.
Consumer PC ambitions aside, we are also expecting this year’s keynote to be heavy on robotics from NVIDIA, which has made it one of their pillars of their Taiwan efforts to help the island nation become a leader in robotics, as well. So we would not be surprised to see some robotics-related revelations from the company to go with this.
Taiwan in general is expected to be a major focal point of this year’s keynote, even more than usual. From a business standpoint, the company is heavily reliant on partners in Taiwan to supply parts for, build, and ship systems integrating NVIDIA’s GPUs, CPUs, and networking gear. So a key part of NVIDIA’s Computex keynotes in recent years has been recognizing those partners, and helping to promote them. Adding to that, construction is about to begin on NVIDIA’s local Constellation campus, and Jensen went on the record last week during GTC Taipei as stating that he expected the company to spend 150 billion dollars a year in Taiwan. In short, NVIDIA’s ties to Taiwan run deep, and they are going to get deeper.
Finally, no NVIDIA keynote would be complete without some kind of data center AI tie-in. NVIDIA is not yet shipping Vera Rubin in volume, so Computex would be a prime opportunity to promote the hardware a bit more ahead of its launch later this year.
NVIDIA’s keynote is scheduled to run for 120 minutes, and will kick off at 8pm PT/11pm ET/11am CST/03:00 UTC.
