MediaTek Senior Vice President Vince Hu told Bloomberg Television at Computex 2026 in Taipei on June 2 that the Taiwanese chipmaker plans to increase hiring to support its expanding push into new AI domains. Hu said the company is confident in its prospects for growth and noted that MediaTek has good order visibility for its nascent data center business over the next few years. The company is currently helping to power Nvidia’s new PC chip dubbed Spark, positioning MediaTek alongside Nvidia in the push toward edge AI, and joins a wave of major tech firms publicly countering concerns about AI-driven job displacement by signaling headcount growth.
MediaTek’s Computex showcase, themed “AI Without Limits,” covers edge-to-cloud agentic AI platforms spanning smartphones, tablets, automotive cockpits, and data center infrastructure. On the connectivity front, the company demonstrated Co-Packaged Optics technology reaching 400 Gbps per fiber and a MicroLED-based active optical cable for data center interconnects that cuts power consumption by 50% while remaining compatible with existing equipment. President Joe Chen described the moment as a decisive inflection point: the industry is shifting from passive AI chatbots toward agentic systems capable of making decisions and executing tasks autonomously across the full edge-to-cloud stack. MediaTek Data Center Solutions delivers end-to-end platforms covering custom ASICs, XPUs, and rack-level integration. CEO Dr. Rick Tsai is scheduled to deliver a keynote on June 3.