Computex, one of the biggest trade shows of the year for the laptop and PC space, starts in a few days. A number of companies will be making big announcements, but the most anticipated event of the week is Nvidia’s keynote, which will open the show on Monday morning.
The keynote speaker will be Nvidia Founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who – in case you missed it – added $7 billion to his net worth days ago following the company’s massive first quarter earnings report.
Nvidia hasn’t released much information about the topics Huang will cover; Computex revealed that the conference would include “advanced developments in the fields of accelerated computing and artificial intelligence”. Needless to say, we expect AI to feature heavily. Nvidia’s technology helps drive popular generative AI products like ChatGPT and Bard. This year’s explosion of chatbots has resulted in unprecedented growth for the company, including what some have called the largest single-day increase in a company’s valuation ever.
Rumors have also swirled that we might see new graphics cards announced. Seems less likely since the company’s RTX 4060 family of GPUs just hit the shelves earlier this week. Still, you never know – it’s possible we could get a glimpse of more powerful hardware to come.
The fact that the show is taking place in Taiwan means people in North America will have to stay up late to catch the live event. But if you are bored after the Succession finale or just be a night owl, you can listen to the opening speech on YouTube (or just here). It will go live Monday, May 29 at 11 a.m. in Taipei, or Sunday, May 28 in the US at 8 p.m. PT and 11 p.m. ET. If you’re the type of person who doesn’t regularly attend tech keynotes at late hours, you can also catch a replay on YouTube.
Following the keynote, Greg Estes, Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Development Programs at Nvidia, will also give a talk entitled “Racing Towards the Industrial Metaverse”, which will cover “how NVIDIA and its partners use Omniverse, generative AI and accelerated computing to enable an exciting new era of 3D workflows. This will take place on Tuesday, May 30 at 2:30 p.m. in Taipei. It does not appear to be live, but a replay will be available and you can sign up to be notified when this goes live. on the Nvidia website.
