Foxconn: ''We Are No Longer Behind the Stage, We Are On It''
''Which Ecosystem Are We On?''
Metaverse and Web3 Must Also Change Their Questions

[Taipei, Taiwan=X] May 20, 1:00 PM (local time), COMPUTEX 2025 Exhibition Hall 1, First Floor. Walking between booths, one familiar name caught my eye: "Intel." Surprisingly small and dim. Just 10 years ago, Intel always stood at the center of exhibition halls — "Intel Inside" was a quality symbol and digital rank badge. Microsoft's logo filled screens, and Windows boot sounds heralded work.

But the hierarchy has collapsed. COMPUTEX 2025 speaks a completely different language. The logos filling the exhibition hall are no longer Intel and MS — instead, the names frequently heard are NVIDIA, AMD, TSMC, Foxconn, and the geographic keyword "Taiwan." NVIDIA's exhibition space radiates with "RTX 5090" and "NVIDIA" — these words are the new power language of this era.

Most impressive was Foxconn's exhibition space. In memory, Foxconn was always Apple's subcontractor, a shadow giant that assembled but never spoke. But the Foxconn encountered at COMPUTEX was entirely different — massive displays and data centers packed the space. These devices operate in factories worldwide, collaborate with countless tech startups, and may soon constitute our transportation, healthcare, and public systems. "We are no longer behind the stage — we are on it." The center of the world was slowly moving east.

Questions for metaverse and Web3 companies: "Is our NFT compatible with which global marketplace?" "Which L2 or global ID protocol does our DID and wallet system connect to?" "Which AI·3D engines can our virtual space interact with?" "Is our community connectable to global governance protocols?" Technology that doesn't connect to the ecosystem is not "independence" but "isolation." "Technology can be built alone, but eras must be designed together."