Computex 2026

Qualcomm: 2026 is the year of the (AI) agents

Published

June 2, 2026

Luigi Leonardo

Was 2025 the year of AI? If a few companies are to be believed, it definitely was. Now, the industry has a new buzzword. To start off COMPUTEX 2026, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, in his keynote speech, declared 2026 as the year of the agents. Is he right?

Today, everyone’s digital lives are still centered around the smartphone, especially with 6 billion phones out in the world today. However, the rise of agentic AI is changing the entire industry. According to Amon, today’s devices aren’t built for agents.

NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin

Because they want agentic AI to be a thing, companies will force more powerful hardware into the hands of users: ones with stronger CPUs for the orchestration of multiple devices and with an all-day battery life. In the year of the agents, devices will become better just to accommodate a strong influx of agentic AI. And, of course, Amon is quick to point out that Qualcomm has a definite advantage in delivering powerful chips.

Everyone, meet the robots

It’s not just the rise of better personal devices, though. Amon explains that physical AI is already here.

In terms of function, most people will likely know this as automated traffic systems that can detect situations in real time. Spatial camera infrastructure can also analyze a space, like a store, in real time. For example, an AI-powered system can assemble a heat map of shelves that customers normally frequent. In doing so, owners can better create effective store layouts for an optimized shopping experience.

In terms of popularity, these are also autonomous cars. With visual intelligence, today’s autonomous cars can simultaneously deliver a convenient cockpit experience for riders, while analyzing road conditions in real time.

And, finally, in terms of the future, these are robots. Where once robots were finicky and clumsy machines, the industry is now moving to make them more responsive and useful to humans, especially for situations that humans can’t physically attend to.

The rise of 6G

It still feels like yesterday when 5G first entered the scene. Now, the connectivity standard is almost certainly a given in most of the developed world. But, as Amon explains, that’s not enough.

6G, when it arrives, will be instrumental in the development of agentic AI, and vice versa.

Because there’s so much information involved in AI, a faster connection, such as that delivered theoretically by 6G, will enable more seamless interactions between different devices. It will enable continuous intelligence from device to cloud.

And finally, agentic AI can use 6G connections to literally sense the world. With 100 million connections, 6G can map an entire space and detect objects, introducing new potential in infrastructure applications.

A token economy

In 2026, 31.7 billion tokens are consumed every ten seconds, according to Amon. He estimates that in 2030, 1.27 trillion tokens will be consumed in the same 10-second timeframe.

If his prediction rings true, the world will run on a token economy, the single unit that runs agentic AI. Tokens will be profitable. Companies will adopt the economy to fuel their own systems, and consumers have no choice but to adapt.

“Resistance is futile,” Amon concludes. We are now in the year of the agents.

Computex 2026

Here’s all the RTX Spark notebooks announced at COMPUTEX 2026

We got notebooks from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, and MSI.

Published

June 5, 2026

Luigi Leonardo

There’s been much ado about the NVIDIA RTX Spark. By now, you’ve probably heard a lot about the upcoming reinvention of PCs. But, as a regular consumer, it’s hard to visualize just how this revolution looks like. Thankfully, in NVIDIA’s demo suites, a few manufacturers got to showcase their take on an RTX Spark notebook. And all of them are coming out in the fall.

ASUS ProArt P14 and P16

ASUS ProArt P16

ASUS ProArt P14

Dell XPS 16 Creator Edition

HP OmniBook X 14 and Ultra 16

HP OmniBook X 14

HP OmniBook Ultra 16

Lenovo Yoga Pro 9n

Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra

MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI+

Unfortunately, none of these brands could share comprehensive details about their laptops beyond a promise for raw power. All of these models aren’t the final version yet.

However, just from what we can tell, these notebooks do feel different from the standard fare of laptops today. For one, they are deceptively heavier. Though all of the OEMs promise a much thinner profile, they’re either packing a lot of tech inside or are using denser materials for their chassis. But again, these are engineering units, so who knows how heavy these things will actually be?

Secondly, based on NVIDIA’s demos, they can do a lot of heavy lifting. NVIDIA says that these superchips are meant for developers and creators, but gamers will also find joy in their performance. DLSS 4.5, in particular, feels like a true revolution in terms of graphics.

Thankfully, fall isn’t too far away. If you can wait, the next evolution of PCs is just around the corner.

Computex 2026

Postcards from MSI’s 40th anniversary expo

A visual journey through four decades of hardware artistry at COMPUTEX 2026.

Published

June 4, 2026

MJ Jucutan and Vincenz

Stepping into MSI’s 40th year anniversary exhibition space felt less like exploring a traditional tech pavilion and more like embarking on a time-travel expedition.

From the nostalgic, raw engineering of 1986 legacy motherboards to the breathtaking, AI-driven flagships and starry-night inspired laptops of tomorrow, four decades of continuous craftsmanship were brought to life under the watchful eye of the iconic dragon motif.

This photo journal captures that vibrant atmosphere. It’s a visual walk through the heritage and the sheer hardware artistry that defined MSI’s historic celebration in Taiwan.

Photos by Vincenz Lee

Computex 2026

The Surface Laptop Ultra wants to bring “unmetered intelligence” to you

Microsoft’s Mark Linton wants you to get excited.

Published

June 3, 2026

Luigi Leonardo

Earlier this week, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the RTX Spark, an all-new revolution of the PC industry built together with Microsoft. Naturally, Huang shared the perspectives of NVIDIA, but what about Microsoft and the Surface Laptop Ultra?

Two days into COMPUTEX 2026, Mark Linton, Microsoft’s VP for Windows and device sales, shared his side of the RTX Reflex equation, particularly how AI will affect over 240 million devices running Windows. With so many people using the platform, Linton believes that Windows’s success will depend on a four-pronged approach, tackling the different audiences of Windows: consumers, gamers, creators, and developers.

This all centers around the RTX Spark laptops launching sometime in the fall this year. With RTX Spark, Windows plans to deliver unmetered intelligence to every desk and home. Though it will certainly offer more, Windows can confirm that it will have on-device small language models (or SLM), video super resolution, and speech recognition.

As described by NVIDIA, the RTX Spark will come from a variety of manufacturers including ASUS, MSI, and Lenovo. However, Microsoft has its own entry: the Surface Laptop Ultra.

Much like its other contemporaries releasing an RTX Spark laptop this year, Microsoft did not explain what we can expect from its own laptop. Either way, the Surface Laptop Ultra should make for an interesting option for AI enthusiasts.