This article first appeared in News in the Channel magazine issue#30.
Every year in Taipei, tens of thousands of tech professionals and enthusiasts convene at the Nangang Exhibition Centre for Asia’s largest B2B tech expo. This year, Computex 2025 drew a record-breaking 86,521 attendees from 152 countries, while the wider venue welcomed around 1,400 exhibitors across 4,800 booths in roughly 80,000 m² of space.
Held in Taiwan, a nation whose GDP surged approximately 4.3% in 2024, the fastest annual growth in three years, Computex benefits from being set in the world’s semiconductor heartland. Taiwan is home to TSMC, which manufactures about 90% of the world’s most advanced chips, and Taiwanese firms collectively account for roughly 68% of global chip production.
This all sets the stage for the theme of this year’s event – AI Next. Exhibitors from all over the world put their best foot forward and showcased amazing advancements in a diverse range of fields. In this article, we will be looking at some of the highlights of innovation as was seen on the show floor at Computex, or announced as part of the wider events.
Innovations in networking and data centre category
When it comes to the AI race currently unfolding between large companies, one critical technology necessary to power the latest generation of algorithms is massive processing power. It is more important than ever that enterprises have a reliable networking stack to not only store personal data for ingestion by these AI algorithms, but also lend them the ability to train and fine tune personal models that can best fit every use case.
In steps the PAS7700, Synology’s answer to that burning question. This new active-active NVMe storage solution has three times the performance as Synology’s previous flagship models. The PAS7700 is an enterprise solution designed to accelerate, scale and protect enterprise data, leveraging an active-active architecture for seamless support at every networking layer.
This personal best storage device achieves millisecond-grade low latency leveraging an end-to-end NVMe, and achieves up to 2 million IOPS and 30GB/s sequential throughput, as per internal testing.
This storage device is optimised for mission critical applications and high volume transaction processing. This means that the PAS7700 is perfect for enterprise workloads such as databases, which will have a comprehensive level of support, ensuring low latency, high availability and seamless scalability. Hypervisors can also expect seamless deployment, fast backups and efficient resource usage to ensure mainstream virtualisation stays seamless at scale.
To be able to deliver on these intentions, one stand-out feature will be the non-disruptive support at every layer, from the physical and all the way up to the applicational layer, which Synology has dubbed non-disruptive everything. The PAS7700 uses an active-active dual controller architecture ensuring uptime even when servicing and updates are required, meaning enterprises will experience less downtime and continual support.
Furthermore, we can expect support for AI and machine learning workloads with faster data access to reduce bottlenecks and speed up large-scale model training.
The PAS7700 is set to be released in the second half of 2025 and will be the personal best for this company.
Standput product – VsaaS with AI chat functions
An honourable mention also goes out to Synology’s new Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) solution, called C2 Surveillance, accessed via a web portal or mobile app. With a focus on ease-of-use and smart scalability, this service offers non-disruptive cloud monitoring and a setup time of less than two minutes for new camera setups.
On theme with the AI Next focus of Computex, this system also includes DVA analytics to find examples of specific instances in the recorded feeds without users manually needing to scroll through hours of footage. The system now also has AI-powered semantic video search built with open source large language models, so users can search for these instances in natural human language, and be suggested occurrences to look out for.
Conclusion
At this point, most companies realise that they need to introduce AI, and specifically LLMs with an agentic flair, into their business stack, but few know how to achieve it. Thus it was good to see businesses at Computex provide solutions to partners to target these developments from the ground up, starting with where to house and process the data, right down to serving insights and productivity to end users via personal computers.
The biggest tech show in Asia did not disappoint and we eagerly wait for these products to enter the channel and supercharge the world of AI development and deployment. We are entering the era of AI Next – the point when the buzz word becomes a business essential.
Innovations in Computing
One of the busiest floors at the expo was, of course, the one containing all the heavy hitters of the computing world. There were so many exciting products announced for personal, enterprise and also gaming use cases and we highlight a few below.
Acer Swift Go 16 AI PC
For personal use, this device is a standout. Designed to be ultra-thin and light and have an impressive OLED display, it streamlines AI functions into productivity with Copilot, User Sensing 2.0 and Acer LiveArt 2.0
Gigabyte Aorus X3D motherboards
Available in black or ice, it offers 35% multi-threaded AMD AM5 CPU performance boosts and AI overclocking.
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000
Built for workstations and home desktops, meaning a new generation of flagship speed in high-performance processing
Thermaltake MINECUBE 360 Ultra ARGB Sync
Designed for modern PC builders, this AIO liquid cooling solution stole the show
Intel Panther Lake Chip
Demoed for the first time at Computex, we await the release of this chip in 2026 and the competition it will bring.
Innovations in Monitors
This year we also saw some exciting new monitors come onto the scene, and we highlight three that bring an interesting feature to the table.
Acer PD163QT double screen monitor
A portable double-screen monitor solution that looks just like a lightweight laptop when closed
MSI MPG 271QR QD-OLED X50 Gaming Monitor
The world’s first QD-OLED Monitor, with an AI Care Sensor leveraging NPU algorithms
Acer SpatialLabs View Pro 27
This device made a comeback, pushing 3D screens back into popularity
