Best of Computex 2026: Innovating despite disruptions

From affordable premium laptops to next-gen handhelds, and Nvidia bringing its Spark to Windows on Arm, these are the 11 best products introduced at this year’s show.

‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year

The rapid increase in agentic internet traffic means “bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet’s history,” remarked CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince.

AMD’s Helios MI455X AI platform breaks cover, initial systems use UALink-over-Ethernet interconnects — AMD’s Vera Rubin rival surfaces, but the downsides of Ethernet could hamstring performance

AMD’s Helios set to compete against Nvidia’s NVL72 VR200 rack-scale system later this year, but its UALink-over-Ethernet interconnection may affect performance in certain workloads before real UALink interconnects are depl…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits AI token costs are becoming ‘a huge issue’ — company seeks improved value as overspending becomes a meme

OpenAI’s clients are complaining about out-of-control AI spending, and they’re asking Sam Altman to make it more efficient so they don’t blow their annual AI budgets in just one quarter.

Microsoft CEO says new AI data centers use as little water annually as a restaurant — closed-loop cooling system aims to slash consumption from millions of gallons as AI infrastructure faces mounting environmental scrutiny

Microsoft CEO claims the company’s new AI data centers use only as much water as a single restaurant annually, thanks to a closed-loop cooling system designed to dramatically reduce consumption.

Tom’s Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 3 — the heat bites as our team races across Taipei

Our team in Taipei feels the heat in another extremely busy day covering Computex 2026, which is busier than ever before.

Samsung shows first HBM5 mockup with Heat Path Block cooling — thermal race with SK hynix shaping up

Samsung displayed its first physical mockup of HBM5 memory at Computex 2026 in Taipei, pairing the eighth-generation AI memory with a new in-package cooling structure.

Microsoft unveils Project Solara AI, a chip-to-cloud platform built to power a new generation of ‘agent-first’ enterprise devices — hardware designed to run AI agents instead of traditional apps

Microsoft has unveiled Project Solara, an Android-based chip-to-cloud platform for AI-first enterprise devices. The system combines Qualcomm and MediaTek hardware, Azure-hosted agents, and adaptive interfaces, with referen…

Trump signs AI executive order seeking 30-day government access to frontier models before release — voluntary framework will include classified benchmark to determine which models qualify

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that asks AI companies to give the federal government early access to their most capable models.

Korean tech workers splash cash on luxury brands after bumper bonus payouts — luxury goods sales rocket nearly 150% in Gyeonggi Province semiconductor belt

South Korean media has noted a surge in spending on luxury goods following big bonus payouts to semiconductor workers.