Qisda Corp. chairman Peter Chen has pledged that the group will not miss out on the AI boom, with AI servers, 1.6T switches, cooling systems, and power solutions already in place. With orders already in hand and some products ready to ship, Qisda expects its AI business to begin taking off in 2026.
As robots and autonomous systems move from factory floors into hospitals, warehouses, and public spaces, NXP Semiconductors CEO Rafael Sotoayo used his Computex 2026 keynote to argue that the defining challenge of physical AI is not raw intelligence, but the ability to act in milliseconds without waiting for instructions from the cloud.
Liteon Technology showcased AI power management and liquid cooling solutions at COMPUTEX 2026, highlighting technologies aimed at supporting both AI PCs and next-generation AI data centers.
As the artificial intelligence industry moves beyond chatbots and text generation, a new question is emerging: what happens when AI can act on the physical world, not just understand it?
MiniMax and Z.ai both plan to apply for listings in Shanghai's tech-focused STAR Market, months after the two AI companies successfully launched IPOs in Hong Kong's stock market in January, according to Nikkei Asia. This move indicates the pressure the AI companies face to raise capital amid high compute costs to stay ahead of the competition, even as profitability so far remains out of reach.
Global AI growth is increasingly colliding with electricity limits, a shift that could slow data center buildouts and reshape infrastructure planning from the US to Asia. Delta Electronics chairman Ping Cheng said the bottleneck is already delaying projects, pushing operators toward self-owned power systems and off-grid microgrids.
Quanta Computer executive vice president and Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) president Mike Yang said GPU applications are expanding across training, edge computing, and storage, as well as in the development of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). In response to future demand, the company is preparing for power needs and production capacity, planning to add three more plants in the US by the end of 2026.
xMEMS Labs is preparing to move its MEMS-based µCooling technology toward commercial production in 2027, with AI glasses and data-center SSDs expected to be among the first applications as sustained AI workloads push thermal constraints beyond GPUs.
OpenAI is weighing whether to publicly release software designed to make advanced AI workloads run more easily across chips from multiple providers, a move that could weaken one of Nvidia's most durable advantages: the CUDA software ecosystem that has helped lock developers into its GPUs.
Lightmatter has joined Nvidia's NVLink Fusion ecosystem, a move that could accelerate the rollout of high-performance optical links for AI infrastructure worldwide. The collaboration is aimed at easing data-center bottlenecks, improving bandwidth, and giving global customers more options for building energy-efficient AI systems at scale.
At the opening day of Computex 2026, Lite-On Technology hosted an AI industry summit under the theme "Powering the AI-driven Future," where DIGITIMES chairman Colley Hwang moderated a cross-industry panel with Nvidia, Infineon Technologies, and Gigabyte subsidiary Giga Computing at the exhibition venue.
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