COMPUTEX
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COMPUTEX Taipei, or Taipei International Information Technology Show (Traditional Chinese: }), is a computer expo held annually at the Taipei World Trade Center in Taipei, Taiwan. The first COMPUTEX expo held in 1981 started out as a place where small and medium sized businesses in Taiwan's nascent computer industry could display their products. As Taiwan's information technology industry took off in the early 1990's, COMPUTEX has since rapidly expanded and become an important showcase for IT industry. Now it has become the second largest computer expo in the world (after CeBIT) and the largest in Asia, with participation from major manufacturers such as Intel, AMD, ATI, NVidia, and others.
Because of the large number of companies involved in the production of computer hardware in Taiwan, COMPUTEX has become a favorite location for observers hoping to get a preview of new hardware and trends in that field.
History and figures
- COMPUTEX 2006 was held June 6th to June 10th 2006 [link].
- COMPUTEX 2005 was held May 31st to June 4th 2005.
- COMPUTEX 2004 was held June 1st to June 5th 2004, there were 1,347 exhibitors, 118,052 visitors, and a gross exhibit space of 58,730 square meters.
- COMPUTEX 2003 was scheduled to be held in June, but due to SARS fears in Asia, the show was held in September [link]. There were still 1,241 exhibitors and a total of 2,419 booths.
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