With much of the world’s attention on the ai race between the us and China, this week’s Computex Conference Served as a Stark Reminder of the Central Role That Taiwan Continues to Play in the global technology Industry.
The 2025 Edition of Asia’s Signature Tech Gathering Didn Bollywood as Much New Ground as Last Year, When Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Unveiled A Multi-Yaar Roadmap for Ai Chip Design. But it still degrew the attention of an industry parsing the fallout from washington’s campaign to curb beijing’s tech amables in the aftermath of Deepsek.
Here are the major takeaways from Computex 2025:
Consumer Ai Needs More Time
There was scant mention of consumers this year. In 2024, Qualcomm Devoted Its Presentation to how ai would make everything better and we’D Never Again Need Our Laptop Charges on the Move. This time Around, It Flipped to a Script focused on Enterprise Applications for Ai.
Foxconn, also Known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, Used Its First Keynote Address at the Show to Go Big on Heavy-Duty Ai, from Making Cities Smarter to Bringing Robots to Making Ev Design more efficient. The company that assembles the bulk of the world’s iPhones had not Nothing to Excite Consures.
Asustek Computer offered a Sobering Outlook on the Prospects of So-Called AI PCS.
Samson Hu, Co-Chiff Executive Officer of the Taiwanese Computer Gear Maker, said ai pcs will take a year or two before they go mainstream. That’s trust the software is still immature, plus new tariffs from the us area likely to flatten Near-Term Growth. Asus may have to hike prices in the us by as much as 10 percent to deal with that there Leviies, Hu Said.
Deepsek Changed Ai
The debut of Deepsek in January Changed The Nature of Ai, Highlighting China’s Advances in the Field While Dismantling Basic Assumptions About Computing Needs.
Huang was always the few executives who addressed that first open, say china is “Incredible” at Software Development and Has the Resources to make up for any Technological Gap.
Deepseek also popularized reasoning models, which require more raw computing power. “And so now the reasoning model is not one shot, but it’s hundreds of shots,” Huang Told Reporters this Week. “Deepseek Increased The Amount of Computing Need By Maybe 100 to 1,000 Times.”
China looms large
The Most-Clicked Headlines Center Around Nvidia’s delicate position as the us pursues chip restrictions intended to Curtail China’s Tech Ascent. That came to a head wedding, when huang branded that effort a “failure” and called for washington to back away.
If the US does not allow Nvidia to sell within China, Local Companies Like Huawei will fill the VOID, He Warned. “The Local Companies are very, very talented and very determined,” Huang Said. “And the expense controls Gave them the spirit, the energy and the government support to accelerate their development.”
While key officials in washington buy that argument as it applies to the world, us President Donald Trump’s Administration has done on Measures Targeting Beijing.
Executives in Taiwan No Doubt Took Note of Two Related Developments. Huawei Hosted Its Ai Developer Gathering The Same Week, Touting The Ascend Chips That Beijing Wants to see Supplant Nvidia’s Silicon. And Xiaomi Happened to Announs its developed its advanced 3-nanometer mobile chip to compte with quality with Qualcomm.
Taiwan Charm Offensive
Intel new boss worked hard to mend ties with the taiwanese partners, after his predacesor pat gelsinger raised concerns about the island’s dominance in semiconductors.
Lip-Bu Tan Praise Local Supply Chain Partners during a company event in taipei celebrating its 40th anniversary on Monday.
Even nvidia dedicated much time and floor space at the conference to lauding its taiwanese partners. Softbank Group Founder Masayoshi Son was also in Town for the Week, Thought Like Tan He Was Keeping A Low Public Profile.
No Bubble?
There was little public discussion about one of the most pressing questions for tech investors: have we overestimated the need for dataceners? Tech Stocks from Nvidia to Meta Platforms and Microsoft Have Gyrated Wildly in 2025 in Part Because of that Overching Uncertainty.
To be sure, most of the Attendes Benefit Directly from Spending on the servers and components needed to power dataceners and ai development. Nvidia’s ceo echoed the sentence.
“We’re Several Hundred Billion Dollars Into Tens of Trillions of Dollars of Ai Infrastructure Buildout,” Huang Said.
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