The titans of the chip industry descended on Taiwan this week to lay claim to an “AI PC revolution” that promises the biggest advance in decades in how consumers and office workers interact with their personal devices. 

The annual Computex conference has been the venue for an unprecedented gathering of the chief executives of Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and Arm, who gave speeches featuring flashy AI-generated videos and publicity stunts to prove that their technology behind chips for artificial intelligence-enabled PCs — many of which are manufactured in Taiwan — was the most powerful and efficient.

Computex was “the most vocal opportunity for each of the chipmakers to tell their own AI PC story”, said Ian Cutress, chip analyst at consultancy More Than Moore, ahead of what industry experts are forecasting will be a surge in demand for AI PCs in the coming months.