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Tuesday 2 June 2026
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan anchors AI comeback on 18A, x86, and Taiwan ties at Computex 2026
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan used his Computex 2026 keynote in Taipei to frame Intel's AI-era reset around execution, infrastructure, and deeper ties with Taiwan's PC and semiconductor supply chain.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan's Computex keynote: 1,000 steps up Elephant Mountain and a live demo with Perplexity's CEO
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan opened his Computex 2026 keynote in Taipei on June 2 with a personal note that set him apart from every Intel CEO before him.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Qisda deepens AI push as it eyes rebound in 2026
Qisda Corporation is accelerating its AI strategy across its core businesses, with chairman Peter Chen saying the technology is still in its early stages but is already reshaping daily life and will have a greater impact over the next decade.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Valeo builds second growth engine in AI data centers, robotics and defense as E/EA transition slows
As Europe and the US fall short of expectations for the automotive electrical/electronic architecture (E/EA) transition, traditional tier-1 suppliers are accelerating diversification efforts to offset slowing automotive growth. Among them, France-based Valeo, one of the world's top-15 automotive parts suppliers, is leveraging its automotive expertise to expand into faster-growing sectors including AI data center infrastructure, defense, robotics and small-mobility solutions.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Strong AI token demand will continue to drive hardware shipments, says TAITRA chair
COMPUTEX 2026 is underway in Taipei, and this year's edition has distinguished itself with an unusually dense lineup of top tech company CEOs on the speakers' roster, according to Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) chairman James Huang.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Agentic computing could reshape data centers, PCs, robots, and vehicles, says Nvidia CEO
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the computing industry is entering an era of "agentic computing," in which data centers, personal computers, autonomous vehicles, humanoid robots, and satellite systems will share a common AI architecture. He framed the shift as a broad reworking of how future devices will operate.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Ennoconn expects AI business to surpass NT$10 billion in 2026
Ennoconn, a Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) vendor, said on June 1 at a forum in Taipei that its physical AI business is expected to exceed NT$10 billion (US$318.93 million) in 2026, as it deepens ties with Austria-based smart IoT solutions supplier Kontron and expands commercialization. The company said the partnership could generate an additional NT$10 billion in synergies by 2028.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Anthropic files confidential paperwork for IPO, racing ahead of OpenAI
Anthropic announced that it has filed confidential paperwork to go public on June 1 to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, pulling ahead of rival OpenAI for now in the IPO race. The number of shares on offer and the stock price have yet to be decided.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Foxconn expands AI role with token factories, robotics, and global data centers
Foxconn Technology Group used COMPUTEX 2026 to present a broader AI infrastructure push, signaling a move beyond AI server supply and into token factory services. The company highlighted its "3+3+3" transformation strategy spanning manufacturing, platform applications, robotics, healthcare, and space-related computing.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Intel unveils Xeon 6+ to power agentic AI inference, challenges GPU-centric infrastructure
Intel is expanding its data center portfolio with new Xeon 6+ processors, Ethernet E835 networking products, and fresh details on its Crescent Island AI accelerator, positioning the CPU as a central control point for the next phase of AI infrastructure.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Alphabet signals heavier AI capex cycle with US$80 billion infrastructure raise
Alphabet said it will raise US$80 billion in equity to fund a rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure as demand for its services accelerates, signaling a more capital-intensive phase of growth that could reshape global cloud and chip supply chains. Berkshire Hathaway separately agreed to invest US$10 billion, underscoring investor conviction in the company's long-term AI build-out.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
OpenAI expands robotics ambitions, recruiting engineers for hardware and AI development
OpenAI is expanding its robotics efforts and recruiting engineers across hardware, operations, systems, and machine learning to develop robots capable of performing useful tasks in the physical world.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Agentic AI triggers widespread computing crunch across global supply chain
In 2026, a global compute shortage spanning chips, cloud services, servers, and data-center components is sweeping across the industry. The scarcity of compute and broad price hikes are running through the entire AI sector, pushing Nvidia's market value higher, lifting cloud revenue and profits at Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to record levels, and driving the valuations of AI startups OpenAI and Anthropic to nearly US$1 trillion.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Foxconn and Nvidia scale agentic AI and nursing robots across Taiwan's hospitals
Foxconn and Nvidia announced at Nvidia GTC Taipei that they would expand agentic AI deployments across Taiwan's major medical centers this year to support the government-backed Healthy Taiwan initiative, aiming to move hospital AI from isolated pilots to coordinated multi-agent systems. The rollout pairs Foxconn's Nurabot nursing collaboration robot and surgical scrub bots with CoDoctor software agents to handle clinical reasoning, record-keeping, logistics, and real-time procedure support.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Advantech and Nvidia roll out agentic AI factory brain to automate real-time operations
Advantech on June 1 said it deepened its strategic partnership with Nvidia and launched an AI-native factory architecture centered on an agentic multi-agent system called AI Factory Brain, aimed at extending AI decision-making into real-time factory operations. The announcement described the move as a shift from hardware supply to integrated solutions, with Advantech using its own factories as validation sites for the new platform.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Foxconn, Nvidia advance robotaxi fleet plans, eye 2028 southern Taiwan launch
Nvidia announced at its GTC Taipei 2026 event that it will significantly expand the ecosystem of its Nvidia Drive Hyperion robotaxi-ready platform, bringing together global automakers, autonomous driving software developers, and shared mobility service providers.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Analysis: Nvidia's RTX Spark launch could intensify competition in AI PCs and Windows on Arm
Nvidia and MediaTek have formally entered the AI PC and Windows on Arm market with the unveiling of RTX Spark at Computex 2026, ending two years of low-profile development. The first products are expected from Dell, HP, Lenovo, and MSI in autumn 2026.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Solomon integrates Nvidia NemoClaw to enable more autonomous humanoid robots
Solomon, an AI 3D vision company, announced at COMPUTEX 2026 that it had integrated Nvidia's NemoClaw architecture to coordinate multiple AI agents for humanoid robots, combining inference, perception, sensor fusion, mobility, and manipulation into a single workflow. The firm said the integration leverages Nvidia's open-source foundation models, together with Solomon's active perception technology, to enable robots to understand task requirements, adjust viewing angles, optimize grasping positions, and respond dynamically to changing environments.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
KYEC chair CK Lee steps down; vice chair Chi-chun Hsieh takes over
Semiconductor testing company King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) recently convened its 2026 shareholders' meeting, during which it completed the election of nine board directors. Longtime chairman C.K. Lee unexpectedly stepped down from the chairmanship but remains a regular director. The board subsequently elected vice chairman Chi-chun Hsieh as the new chairman, a move that has drawn significant attention from the industry.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
HPE pulls forward long-term targets as AI infrastructure demand surges
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) reported a record second fiscal quarter of 2026, with management saying accelerating demand for AI infrastructure, networking, and enterprise modernization has pushed the company two years ahead of its original fiscal 2028 financial targets.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Nvidia and MediaTek reveal how RTX Spark came together — and why Jensen Huang insisted on NVLink from day one
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang held a global media session on June 2 with an unusual guest: MediaTek vice chairman and CEO Rick Tsai, who joined Huang to share the inside story of how the two companies developed RTX Spark, the AI PC platform that Huang described as the beginning of the agent computing era.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Nvidia's Vera CPU is built for agents, not humans; Jensen Huang says it opens a market that never existed before
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at GTC Taipei on June 1st that the company is launching Vera, a new CPU designed specifically for agentic AI workloads. The announcement reframes the CPU market around a simple but consequential argument: every CPU built until now was designed for human users. Vera is designed for AI agents.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Enterprise AI spending slows as token costs outpace measurable returns
Corporate adoption of artificial intelligence tools has cooled as firms across technology and consumer sectors flagged soaring token costs and uncertain returns, according to recent reporting by The Information, Axios, and Fortune. Executives said mounting compute expenses have, in many cases, exceeded labor costs, prompting moves to curb usage and rethink vendor choices as cost-control measures accelerated in the first half of 2026.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
China bars AI as official reason for layoffs, pushing firms to hide cuts and retrain staff
China moved in late 2025 to prohibit companies from citing AI adoption as a reason for layoffs, directing employers to justify any workforce reductions as unrelated to AI, executives said. The policy followed meetings between senior officials and major employers to assess AI's impact on jobs and aimed to avoid social instability as firms accelerate AI deployment.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Naver launches defense AI unit to pursue military data and decision-making market
South Korean internet giant Naver said it has formed a dedicated defense AI organization to pursue military AI transformation, deploy field engineers to client sites, and develop defense-specific AI capabilities. The move was disclosed by South Korean media outlets Seoul Economic Daily and Maeil Business Newspaper, which reported that Naver Cloud has established a "Defense AX Special Task Force" to commercialize AI services for defense customers.