TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) on Monday unveiled a new AI chip for personal computers during the company’s annual GTC Taipei developer conference held alongside Computex Taipei, predicting rapid growth for Taiwan’s AI supply chain partners.
Speaking before more than 5,000 attendees, Huang introduced the RTX Spark chip, co-developed with MediaTek. The chip integrates AI capabilities directly into PCs, and Huang said the launch gives Nvidia a complete PC product lineup spanning desktops and laptops, per Liberty Times.
MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai (蔡力行) said Nvidia is a customer and a design partner. He said the jointly developed chip combines CPU and GPU technologies using advanced semiconductor processes, adding that such a complex collaboration between two companies is rare in the global semiconductor industry.
Huang said Microsoft’s launch of the Windows operating system 40 years ago ushered in the era of personal computing and helped drive the growth of Taiwan’s electronics sector. He said Nvidia and Microsoft spent the past three years developing a new Windows PC platform powered by the RTX Spark chip.
At the start of the keynote, Huang displayed a backdrop featuring Taiwanese supply chain partners, calling Taiwan’s AI supply chain ecosystem the best in the world. He also included several Taiwanese restaurants he frequently visits, drawing laughter from the audience.
Later in the presentation, Huang announced that Nvidia’s next-generation AI server platform, Vera Rubin, has entered mass production. He thanked Taiwanese supply chain partners and described the platform as the company’s most ambitious product to date.
Huang said he believes AI will generate substantially more revenue for supply chain companies, adding that the AI market could eventually become 10 times or even 100 times larger than previous semiconductor markets. He also rejected concerns that AI would reduce employment, saying industries will require more software engineers as AI adoption expands, per Liberty Times.
He said AI tools could significantly increase productivity, estimating that US$3 trillion (NT$94.17 trillion) in labor costs could generate nearly three times the work output, equivalent to about US$9 trillion in productivity value.
Strong global demand for AI computing has contributed to rising revenues and stock prices among Taiwanese AI-related companies. Huang also said Taiwan’s projected economic growth this year was incredible, noting forecasts approached 10% GDP growth.
