TAIPEI – Intel revealed various partnerships at Computex 2026, including a rackscale partnership with Foxconn, custom silicon for Ericsson, and an agentic-centric neocloud venture.

The Foxconn partnership was announced during Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan's keynote, who revealed the deal will see the pair explore “the development, integrations, and commercialization of differentiated rank scale AI infrastructure solution, leveraging complementary architecture to address diverse AI workload requirements.”

“Through this collaboration, we will deliver system-level AI solutions to our joint customers, enabling more integrated and scalable computing environments,” Tan added.

The partnership comes after reports that Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn was picked as Nvidia’s exclusive rackscale supplier for Nvidia's Groq 3 LPX. Unveiled at GTC, the liquid-cooled LPX racks will power Nvidia’s Groq 3 language processing unit (LPU) offering, with some 256 LPUs interconnected through 640 Tb/s of scale-up bandwidth and 128 gigabytes of on-chip static random access memory.

Tan was also joined on the keynote stage by Robert F. Smith, chair of Vista Equity Partners, to announce what Smith dubbed “the world's first commercially available architecture for disaggregated inference.”

Vector Core Compute was described as an agentic neocloud “built to deliver the fastest enterprise inference throughput of any architecture to date.” The Intel-Vista venture will also involve Cambium Capital and Sambanova, with Together AI as its first commercial partner.

Other Intel announcements at Computex included a tie-up with Ericsson to broaden the market opportunity for its Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU). According to Srinivasan Iyengar, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Central Engineering Group, the "global scale" deal would focus less on internal development to bring the IPU "out to the external world and do something more." The Swedish vendor will be joining Google, which is a current partner on the scheme.