The annual Computex pc expo kicks off in Taepei this weekend. And this 12 months’s present is shaping as much as be essentially the most packed in years.
Computex rivals CES for an important PC commerce present of the 12 months, and in most years is attended by not solely the quite a few native Taiwanese companies (Asus, MSI, ASRock, and others), however the main chip builders have been growing their very own presence as properly. These days, whereas CES itself tends to land extra high-profile bulletins, lately it’s been Computex that has delivered on extra substantial bulletins. This is essentially as a result of tech companies have aligned their product schedules to roll out close to gear within the second half of the 12 months, when retail gross sales are stronger as a result of back-to-school and vacation purchasing durations.
This 12 months’s present, in flip, is seeking to be an particularly massive 12 months for the PC ecosystem. All the most important PC chip companies – AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, and the 4th Musketeer, Qualcomm – are holding keynote addresses at this 12 months’s present, the place they’re anticipated to announce new slates of PC merchandise to ship later this 12 months. In a traditional 12 months there may be sometimes solely main bulletins from one or two of the most important chip companies, so having all 4 of them on the present delivering prolonged keynotes is setting issues up for what must be an distinctive present.
And whereas the present doesn’t formally open till Monday, media briefings are already properly underway on the bottom. Our personal Gavin Bonshor has been in Taiwan since Tuesday for Intel’s 2024 Tech Tour, and that is simply the tip of the iceberg. As a consequence, we’re anticipating a deluge of bulletins from the most important chip makers over the subsequent few days.
As has change into customary today, the keynotes from all 4 chip distributors shall be broadcast dwell. And whereas the native time zone for Taiwan (UTC +8) does imply that these bulletins are at comparatively odd hours, most are nonetheless happening in what are cheap hours to observe them again in North America. And for these of you who can’t catch them dwell, AnandTech shall be dwell running a blog most of those keynotes.
So with out additional ado, right here’s a take a look at the Computex 2024 keynote schedule, and what we’re anticipating to see from these displays.
NVIDIA: What’s Next for the AI Ecosystem
When: June 2nd, 7:00am ET (4:00am PT)
What: NVIDIA’s leather-based jacket-wielding CEO Jensen Huang shall be presenting a chat “outlining what’s next for the AI ecosystem.”
Description: NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang will ship a dwell keynote on June 2 at 7 p.m. Taiwan Time on the NTU Sports Center and can share how the period of AI is driving a brand new industrial revolution throughout the globe.
Where To Watch: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/events/computex/
What To Expect: Of the 4 Comuptex-aligned keynotes, NVIDIA’s is each the primary and essentially the most mysterious. The firm has not telegraphed its intentions for its keynote – and even how lengthy it can run. And with nearly all of NVIDIA’s merchandise intersecting the AI market in some trend, the “AI ecosystem” may conceivably cowl something from servers to smartphones.
With that mentioned, NVIDIA is coming into this present as the seller farthest from the beginning of their subsequent product cycle. The firm already offered an in depth roadmap for it’s all-important server merchandise at their very own GTC convention two months in the past, leaving them with comparatively little to announce at this spring’s expo. And NVIDIA’s client GPUs have historically adopted a 2+ 12 months cadence, that means they’re not due for refresh till later this 12 months on the earliest. Still, NVIDIA is solidly within the driver’s seat of its personal future proper now because of the wild success of its Grace Hopper-based accelerators, so the corporate can (and can) do…
