BEST OF COMPUTEX 2025: THE MOST INTRIGUING & INNOVATIVE PC HARDWARE

THIS IS THE BEST PC GEAR FROM THE BEST PC SHOW.

- BRAD CHACOS

This year's Computex—the premiere PC industry event of the year, where manufacturers reveal the hardware you'll be able to buy during this year's back to school and holiday shopping seasons—felt more muted than any in recent memory. It's no surprise. US tariffs on Chinese goods have frozen the PC industry (fave.co/4ieSHQe), and vendors are hesitant to announce (much less release) new hardware in such an unstable economic situation.

But still, the show went on—and it's a good thing it did, because while we saw fewer PC announcements at Computex this year, we also saw some certified bangers. Which reveals got us deeply, personally excited? This is the best hardware of Computex 2025. Giddy up.

AMD's new Ryzen Threadripper 9000 chips are built for heavy work.

AMD RYZEN THREAD RIPPER 9000

In a Computex curiously devoid of chip announcements (well, aside from the new RTX 5060 that Nvidia tried to bury, fave.co/443ZSWh), leave it to AMD to whip out the big guns. The Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series (fave.co/4e1JHNF) focuses on the same overwhelming CPU power as its predecessors, but now comes infused with key power and performance improvements within AMD's new 5nm "Zen 5" architecture.

Acer's Swift Edge 14 AI was one of the stars of Computex.