Computex 2026: All the news and announcements

Computex 2026 in Taipei features major hardware announcements from tech giants including Nvidia, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. Key highlights include Nvidia's new RTX Spark PC chips and various AI-integrated laptops and gaming handhelds.
Why it matters
These announcements signal a significant shift in consumer hardware, with a heavy emphasis on AI-optimized chips and new competition in the laptop and handheld gaming markets.
Computex 2026 is kicking off in Taipei, Taiwan this week, where Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, Intel, and other tech brands are announcing new laptops, handhelds, chips, and more. Nvidia unveiled RTX Spark , its first family of consumer PC chips, arriving in laptops and mini PCs starting this fall. Intel is launching two new custom chips made for handheld gaming devices, the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme , which will power the upcoming Acer Predator Atlas 8. Qualcomm is taking aim at the MacBook Neo with its new entry-level Snapdragon C platform . Meanwhile, AMD’s responding to RAMaggedon by launching new versions of its old hardware and promising support for AM5 through 2029. Follow along here for the latest news and updates. These are the first Nvidia RTX Spark laptops Asus just announced the OLED Xbox Ally X of my dreams Adobe Premiere and Photoshop are optimized for Nvidia Spark laptops. The first confirmed Nvidia RTX Spark laptops. This is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark Nvidia announces RTX Spark as ‘the most efficient PC chip ever built’ MSI put Vincent van Gogh paintings on two limited edition laptops. Only MSI could put this much dragon on a laptop. The MSI Katana and Venture laptops are getting a fresh redesign, but details are sparse. AMD’s new pitch: our old tech is so good you should just keep using it The QD-OLED gaming monitor that started it all got a big upgrade Dell is bringing back the XPS 13 as a MacBook Neo competitor — with a temporary discount to $599 MSI stuck a holographic AI capsule to its new desktop. This extravagant gaming laptop could ruin other screens for you Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are all teasing Nvidia’s new N1X laptop processors Acer’s launching a Linux handheld for streaming your PC games Microsoft teases new Surface hardware and ‘a new era of PC’ Acer’s answer to the MacBook Neo is a $699 laptop with Intel chips and 8GB of RAM This is MSI’s new Claw 8 EX AI Plus gaming handheld Qualcomm promises $300 Windows laptops with new Snapdragon C Acer’s new convertible laptop houses Snapdragon X2 chips and a garaged stylus. Intel’s first handheld gaming chip is the Arc G3, and this Acer is using it A roughly $300 laptop? In this economy?
The article provides a summary of industry product launches without taking a stance on the quality of the hardware.
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