Nvidia chief Jensen Huang is set to open the Computex trade show in Taiwan with a lengthy speech focused on Artificial Intelligence and on Taiwan’s central place in the industry. Huang, who was born in Taiwan’s southern city of Tainan, has a high profile on the island and is expected to use the appearance to outline Nvidia’s latest product efforts across chips, software and systems.
The CEO of the ?tn chipmaker announced plans last week to invest around ?bn a year in Taiwan, describing it as the epicentre of the Artificial Intelligence revolution. The speech is set to begin at 11 a.m. (0300 GMT) at the Taipei Music Hall. Nvidia is also building a Taiwan headquarters which is scheduled to be operational in 2030. That will bring it closer to key supplier TSMC, which makes many of the advanced semiconductors powering Artificial Intelligence systems.
Attention is likely to focus on Nvidia’s data center products, such as its new Vera Rubin Artificial Intelligence computing platform and Vera central processing unit (CPU), and on its efforts in markets such as robotics and autonomous driving. One potential area of focus is Nvidia’s efforts, reported by Reuters in 2023, to develop an Arm-based PC chip that would challenge Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. Chips take about two years to design and Huang has said that the central processors, or CPUs, are tuned for consumer hardware with Artificial Intelligence.
The appearance comes around two weeks after Huang accompanied U.S. President Donald Trump on a visit to Beijing, part of a high-powered corporate delegation, to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Last month when the company reported quarterly results, Huang aimed to assure investors that Nvidia can maintain its rampaging growth. He said a wide swathe of customers and new products will help the company beat the roughly ?tn in sales it has forecast for its flagship Artificial Intelligence chips. Computex is expected to attract 1,500 exhibitors from 33 countries around the world. Intel and Qualcomm’s CEOs are also due to deliver speeches at the trade show.
