About this episode

This episode discusses the latest announcements from NVIDIA at GTC Taipei and the significance of Taiwan in the global AI landscape.

Welcome to SIT Podcast. Just a few hours ago, the eyes of the global tech world turned to the Taipei Music Center, where NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivered a GTC Taipei keynote that sent a jolt through the industry. As we speak, the doors of Computex 2026 have yet to officially open — but NVIDIA has already seized the moment, declaring the arrival of a "new era of PC." In this episode, we take a close look at three defining trends: 1. NVIDIA moves into laptop silicon. After more than a decade away, NVIDIA returns to the consumer CPU arena with the N1 and N1X chips. According to supply-chain reports, the high-performance N1X is said to feature a 20-core Arm CPU and Blackwell-architecture graphics, with performance reportedly compared to the desktop-class RTX 5070. More significantly, this could mean the CUDA ecosystem running natively on a Windows-on-Arm laptop for the first time. 2. Taiwan — the center of global AI. In his keynote, Huang revealed that NVIDIA's annual spending in Taiwan has grown to roughly $100 billion. The company is also planning an overseas headquarters called "Constellation," reportedly slated to open around 2030 and house some 4,000 employees. From TSMC's…

Topics covered

• AI news
• NVIDIA
• Computex
• GTC Taipei
• Taiwan technology
• laptop silicon
• global AI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NVIDIA, TSMC, Foxconn

Places: Taiwan

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