Kicking off today is the annual Computex tradeshow in Taiwan. Home to countless system and device manufacturers, Computex is a cornucopia of consumer electronics, and these days is also the biggest PC-centric show of the year. And even though it takes place in May, barely half-way through the year, the show routinely sets the stage for the consumer and server products set to launch later in the year, in the tech industry’s critical third and fourth quarters.
There are several major keynotes during this year’s show. While Intel has passed on hosting a keynote this year – they’re essentially smack-dab in the middle of their product cycles – AMD, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA are all at the show. And, as the largest of the major tech companies at the show, it’s perhaps only fitting that NVIDIA gets to kick things off with the first major keynote.
NVIDIA Computex 2025 Keynote Preview
As is normally the case, NVIDIA CEO (and leather jacket enthusiast) Jensen Huang will be headlining the company’s Computex 2025 keynote. NVIDIA’s predominant business segment these days is the data center business – backed by the explosion in demand for hardware for AI training and inference – and it’s AI that NVIDIA will be focusing on for this year’s keynote.
In terms of products, NVIDIA just unloaded a ton of major product announcements two months ago at the company’s exclusive conference, GTC 2025, so don’t expect NVIDIA to have a ton of hardware announcements for Computex. Still, in recent years the company has used Computex to make some more minor hardware announcements, along with updating their customers and partners on the status of their big initiatives. Even with NVIDIA’s increasing vertical integration, the company is still heavily reliant on partners in Taiwan to build and ship systems integrating NVIDIA’s GPUs, CPUs, and networking gear, so a key part of their Computex keynotes is recognizing those partners, and helping to promote them.
We should also expect to see an update on NVIDIA’s various software initiatives. With a lot of NVIDIA’s software development decoupled from hardware development, the company can (and does) launch new software packages and services year-round, so Computex is as good a place as any to show off some of their latest software.
NVIDIA’s keynote is scheduled to run for 90 minutes, and will kick off at 8pm PT/11pm ET/11am CST/03:00 UTC. You can catch our live blog coverage here, or NVIDIA’s official keynote live stream over at YouTube.
