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If you take a look at Tom's Hardware this week, you might recognize that we've been posting many reports directly from the ground at Computex 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan. This year, we're offering readers a chance to take a look at how we're coping amid the sweltering Taipei heat and telling you exactly what we've been up to each day.While new announcements (and a lot of writing) are part of the overall Computex experience, we hope you enjoy this series of blog posts from our team on the ground. If you haven't caught up on our Day 0 post, be sure to check it out first. With the busier trade show days looming, Tom's Hardware's fearsome five marches on into the depths of the Nanggang Exhibition Center and beyond.Paul Alcorn: Editor-in-ChiefThe pace of the show is quickening as we get closer to the first day of the show floor opening, which occurs tomorrow. Today found me scrambling after the Nvidia keynote to make it to the Qualcomm keynote, and then the following press question and answer session. Qualcomm really didn’t bring many new announcements to the show, so there weren’t any terribly big news gems to be found. My marathon demo run through Nvidia’s suite, which took two hours, was a lot more interesting as the company demoed a seemingly unending string of gaming and AI demos, with most of those powered by the new Microsoft Surface powered by RTX Spark. In the end, I ended up back at the hotel at 10 pm for some rest before a 7:30 am question and answer session with CEO Jensen Huang tomorrow.Matt Safford: Managing EditorI spent the early morning writing, before grabbing Mos Burger for breakfast and heading to the Nangang Exhibition Center (Computex HQ) to pick up my badge and take more photos for daily wrapups and our Best Of story. After showing our Computex rookie Joe Shields around a bit, we headed to Gigabyte's Computex kickoff, where the company showed off many things, including, most notably, the X870E Aorus Infinity Next, a motherboard wrapped in 3D-printed metal.We were told that just the production and materials of this board cost thousands of dollars, so it won't be making it into your next build (unless maybe you're a billionaire), but it is interesting to see Gigabyte push the boundaries of what is possible.
