AI is everywhere at Computex. Obviously. It's been like this for the past three years, where those two characters have become so ubiquitous around any tech show or presentation by any hardware or software company that I've become almost inured to it. But it's a big reason about why we can't have nice things.
It's why the DIY PC building market is down across the board, to the tune of around 30 - 40%, according to all the manufacturers I've spoken to at the show. It's why the cost of the Steam Deck has blown up, why the Steam Machine still isn't here, why the MSI Claw is going to cost $1,500, and why possibly the most tantalising Intel Panther Lake processors will probably never appear in actual laptops.
