MediaTek Vice Chairman and CEO Dr. Rick Tsai delivered a keynote speech on “AI for Everyone: From Edge to Cloud” at COMPUTEX 2025 on May 20.
MediaTek is a “global leader in semiconductor solutions,” with over 20 billion devices powered by MediaTek in the last decade, averaging 2.5 devices for every person on Earth.
Following his COMPUTEX debut last year, Tsai used the keynote to outline MediaTek’s “blueprint for a connected intelligent world,” enriching lives from supercomputers to self-driving cars, data centers to our very own living rooms.
On Tuesday morning, Tsai unveiled MediaTek’s “leap into 2-nanometer silicon innovation” with the first 2nm device set to tape out this September, delivering 15% better performance and 25% lower power consumption than the 3nm chip.
Tsai also stated MediaTek’s plans to take a leading role in the advance towards 6G, which would “develop with AI at its core.”
MediaTek outlined outstanding processing improvements, with CPU performance increasing over three-fold, GPU performance over seven-fold, and NPU performance accelerating by an impressive 29.1-fold since 2019.
A major focus of Tsai’s keynote speech was MediaTek’s partnerships with industry leaders to create a collaborative ecosystem. Tsai brought Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on stage to elaborate on their joint project, the DGX Spark.
The 20 CPU core, compact supercomputer for cloud developers uses a MediaTek-designed GB10 Grace-Blackwell Superchip, offering “a Petaflop of AI performance on your desk,” boasting a tensor performance of 1000 AI TOPS.
“MediaTek is incredible at collaboration,” Huang said, praising a partnership with Tsai spanning four decades.
Tsai further highlighted MediaTek’s Chromebook collaboration with Google, with the latest model delivering 50 TOPS of AI computing capability using the MediaTek NPU 890.
As the titular topic of Tuesday’s keynote speech, Tsai outlined a future shaped by MediaTek’s AI infrastructure.
From bringing online classrooms to the Korky tribe in India, to a futuristic simulation of AI-powered homes, the applications were seemingly endless for their vision of the “AI connected world;” one that is “coming very soon.”
Tsai outlined MediaTek’s portfolio of processors, starting with their mobile chips, which held the number one global smartphone chipset market share for the last 18 consecutive quarters and generated over $2 billion in revenue last year.
Their latest processor, the Dimensity 9400+, is capable of achieving crystal-clear mobile photography and utilizes independent agentic AI assistants without cloud latency.
“I guarantee you will see 9500, 9600 coming out every year, like a clock,” Tsai said of future evolutions.
In the fast-developing automotive sector, MediaTek chips are set to enable AI across all auto-segments.
The Dimensity Auto Cockpit C-X1 flagship chip can offer an intuitive and interactive, safe and pleasant driving experience, featuring up to 12 simultaneous cameras and screens, in-car entertainment and AI assistants.
Described as an “extension of your home,” this next-gen AI cockpit experience “will be working in a real car, real soon,” Tsai said.
