Live Updates From Computex 2026 🔴

A 15-hour flight, plus a packed week in Taipei, Taiwan, demands a heap of tech to keep me occupied. I’m taking several items that I’m in the middle of testing, including an HP Omnibook Ultra as well as a GoPro Mission 1 Pro action camera and accompanying attachments. For my own pleasure, I’m bringing along a Boox Palma 2 Pro and the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X (covered by DBrand’s Killswitch case) packed with a few games I’ve been meaning to finish, like Esoteric Ebb. I’m also carrying along a Genki Covert Dock 3 the company sent to me for testing, though I’m saving my impressions for later. I also have my trusty Ricoh GRIIIX fixed-lens camera and a Lenovo travel dock for any extra photos. I’ve also started rereading Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey and Maturin series, so that’s why fellow sailing fiction fans may spot Post Captain among my haul. Believe it or not, this is me traveling light. —Kyle Barr

Acer has a whole bunch of new gaming-related products it decided to debut at Computex 2026. While they’re dropping refreshes of the usual set of Predator and Nitro gaming laptops, including a massive Predator Helios 18, I didn’t expect the PC maker would drop a streaming-only handheld as well. The Acer Nitro Blaze Link runs on Linux, not Windows, and it’s meant for device-to-device streaming through open-source apps like Sunshine and Moonlight.

Acer isn’t offering any clue of cost for that or any of its other mobile PCs coming later this year. That makes sense, considering memory prices are in such disarray that even major OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) aren’t willing offer a clear idea about prices even a few months out. —Kyle Barr

If you thought that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chip series was going to be the company’s only computer chip, think again. The company’s next ARM-based CPU built for laptops is Snapdragon C. In what’s perhaps the most on-the-nose branding ever devised, the “C” stands for “compute.” We don’t know much about this chip except that it will feature in budget-end laptops that are obviously made to compete with Apple’s $600 MacBook Neo. —Kyle Barr

Acer offered a sneak peek of its first gaming handheld, which it promises will actually come to the U.S., unlike its still-MIA Nitro Blaze 7. The Acer Predator Atlas 8 is one of the first devices confirmed to sport an Intel Arc G3 and Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, meaning it will pit itself against similar AMD-based devices like the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X. We don’t know much it will cost, but we should hopefully see it on the Computex show floor. —Kyle Barr

Intel’s Arc G3 chips are Team Blue’s attempt to knock AMD from its handheld monopoly. Though it features the same 18A process as the company’s top-end Panther Lake CPU, the Arc G3 chip features half the number of P (performance) and E (efficiency) cores. Instead, it’s relying on the Arc B370 and ARC B390 GPU to potentially offer high-end graphics performance with—hopefully—solid battery life. We already know of two handhelds that plan to make use of the Arc G3. We should learn more during Computex proper. —Kyle Barr

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been crawling around Taiwan the last week in preparation for his company’s GTC Taipei showcase starting June 1. So far, Huang’s been yammering on and on about hyperscalers this and datacenters that, but there’s a reason why you should pay attention next month.

There are enough rumors going around to suggest Nvidia could finally reveal its first laptop CPU in well over a decade. Multiple leaks suggest the N1 and N1X chips will be based on ARM microarchitecture, similar to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X and Snapdragon X2 chips. However, the exciting part of this is how Nvidia could employ its GPU know-how onto an APU (accelerated processing unit) that could compete with AMD’s latest Strix Halo and Gorgon Halo processors.

It all seems promising, though the ongoing leaks suggest that Team Green had to delay its chips for more than a year to squash a mountain of bugs before release. Hopefully, Nvidia took the time to iron out the issues before we see the N1X in action. —Kyle Barr

Let the APU (accelerated processing unit) battle commence. AMD’s new Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 chip seems beefy since it’s packing 16 Zen 5 CPU cores and a 40 CU (compute units) GPU. Despite that, the new chip doesn’t seem like a major upgrade from the last-gen Strix Halo lineup. That’s mostly because it’s using the same RDNA 3.5 GPU microarchitecture on a slightly updated Radeon 8065S graphics chip.

As if you couldn’t get enough “Halo,” AMD is also producing its own mini PC using both last- and current-gen Halo chips called—of course—Ryzen AI Halo. As you can guess by the title, it’s built for AI. Compared to Nvidia’s DGX Spark “AI supercomputer,” AMD’s version is running on good ol’ x86 and supports Windows. By comparison, Nvidia’s little AI box runs on ARM and only supports a customized Linux backend. —Kyle Barr