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Computex built its reputation for wild PC cases and gaming launches, and this year’s event certainly saw its fair share of these. But it has also become a B2B event, with servers, racks and liquid cooling all on proud display around the halls.
We’re going to leave other sites to cover the gaming and gadgets, and instead focus on the technologies businesses should care about. Starting with a duo from Nvidia…
Even before Computex 2026 opened, it felt like Nvidia owned the show. That only accelerated on day one when it announced RTX Spark for Windows, its all-in-one CPU, graphics chip and AI silicon that will go head to head with Intel, AMD and Qualcomm.
Nvidia has already signed up all the major laptop manufacturers, including Microsoft which co-announced its Surface Laptop Ultra. This can be seen as a direct rival to the MacBook Pro.
We don’t expect any RTX Spark laptops to be cheap, with Nvidia focusing on exceptional performance in games, running LLMs (it will support the Nvidia stack that AI developers are familiar with) and professional apps such as Adobe Premiere.
Nvidia claims that RTX Spark laptops will appear this autumn, at which time we’ll also find out about its pricing.
Sticking with high-end hardware, any business that invests a few thousand dollars, pounds or euros on creative workstations should take note of the Nvidia DGX Station. Nvidia CEO and Founder Jensen Huang described the DGX Station as an AI supercomputer, based as it is on the Nvidia GB300 Grace Blackwell chip.
It can support up to 748GB of memory with the promise of 20 petaflops of FP4 performance in AI tasks. As with the RTX Spark, we await pricing on this, and it looks like it will ship in Q4 this year. According to Nvidia at least.
Dell promised to bring back the Dell XPS 13 as an affordable option – and boy has it delivered. The video above provides a nice introduction, and we can certainly see it as a tempting offering for smaller businesses. Not larger ones, though, as Dell won’t be offering any vPro versions.
Here’s what we love: the compact design with the promise of 17-hour battery life. The high-quality metal chassis. A bright touchscreen. A backlit keyboard. But most of all, the price: $599 for students and $699 for everyone else means it goes head to head with the MacBook Neo.
And bear in mind that staring spec includes a 512GB SSD, not 256GB.
By the time we caught up with Keith Tan, the CEO and Founder of Sensory AI, The Robot Barista had served almost a thousand cups of coffee to visitors. (We had one, and very tasty it was too.)
The Robot Barista itself isn’t new, with previous versions installed in airports and company HQs. What’s new is the fact everything is controlled from a single Intel Core Ultra 3 processor. That matters because this is a low-power chip capable of running several demanding tasks at once: the robot’s controls, analysing video feeds, powering the ecommerce solution.
It makes the idea of “physical AI” seem very real, meaning future robots (using that term in its widest form) will be able to do so much more.
This is quite simply Acer’s best ever TravelMate, which is saying something as the brand has been going for over 30 years. There is so much to love here, from the exceptionally light design (under 1kg) to the gorgeous 14in OLED panel.
Unlike the Dell XPS 13, the TravelMate P6 AI is not going to cost under a grand. But it will be powerful and make a real statement if you walk into meetings with this in your hand.
Read our first-look review of the Acer TravelMate P6 AI to see exactly why we love it so much.
During our visit to the Qualcomm booth at Computex 2026, we were taken by one particular demo: how developers could automatically send tasks to a cloud AI solution (such as Claude) for more complicated tasks, but then let a local PC equipped with a powerful NPU take care of simpler tasks. And thereby save a lot of money. Find out how much at the end of the video!
Synology gave Computex attendees an early glimpse of its next-generation DSM, with the promise of AI inference and governance all in one box. It claims that its new DSM Agent will orchestrate “intelligent, automated workflows across the entire system”. This includes tasks such as load balancing and troubleshooting.
We think this makes a lot of sense for businesses who want to keep all their data and AI smarts in one controllable place on the network and look forward to seeing the final result.
Rugged laptop maker Getac showcased a bunch of interesting new products at Computex. There was a predictable piece of toughened kit designed to run local LLMs, which could be packed into a tank.
But its focus on drones was even more interesting. In the pic you see a “drone docking station” into which you can place your current Getac laptop or tablet. The controls for the drone are on either side.
With the growing use of drones in warfare, there is obvious demand for such hardware, whatever you might think of the ethics involved….
