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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

At his Copmutex 2026 keynote, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said the presentation was not about Qualcomm itself, but about all the companies driving technological progress, including suppliers and development partners. Reflecting that message, the stage backdrop prominently featured numerous Taiwanese supply chain partners and customers.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek said it will permanently cut the API price of its flagship model by 75% from June 1, prompting debate across the global AI industry. Amazon AWS said the move may matter less as a price war than as a bid to change how AI infrastructure is built and sold.

During Global Connect Show (GCS) 2026 in Shenzhen, China, Pixverse AI presented and demoed its AI video platform, reflecting the exceptional rate at which AI video is transforming. According to the Chief Representative of Singapore and Global PR Head at Pixverse AI, Robyn Tan, the platform supports three creation paths: text-to-video, image-to-video, and multi-image cinematic production.

Foxconn said its Genesis smart manufacturing project has delivered measurable gains in AI-driven factory operations, with production-line scheduling efficiency up 50%, misjudgment rates down 50%, and root-cause analysis accuracy rising to 90%. The company also said the time needed to build new plants and deploy production lines has been cut by more than 60%.

Asus chairman Jonney Shih said the company is extending its AI strategy beyond servers into agentic AI, edge AI, and physical AI, while treating humanoid robots as a major future market. He said the company's AI server shipments are surging and that physical AI has already been made a long-term priority.

AI holds enormous potential to benefit the environment, but it simultaneously consumes massive amounts of water and energy. One generative AI data center can use up to 5 million gallons of water a day, and AI as a whole draws as much power as 100,000 households. A single AI query can use up to 1,000 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. The result is an urgent paradox: AI is becoming one of the most sophisticated tools ever built to combat climate change, yet it is also one of the fastest-growing strains on the planet's resources.

Agentic AI is reshaping corporate procurement by moving beyond decision support to autonomous execution. Pactum is using it to automate tasks such as requisition handling, supplier communication, and compliance checks, helping enterprises manage procurement more efficiently across large supplier networks.

Lenovo Group is stepping up its AI infrastructure push. Lenovo chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang said on May 28 at the 2026 World Intelligence Expo that the company will invest in Tianjin to build a next-generation AI computing product R&D and manufacturing center, with mass production planned for 2027, as Lenovo seeks a larger share of the AI infrastructure market.