Computex Taipei

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COMPUTEX Taipei, or Taipei International Information Technology Show (traditional Chinese: 台北國際電腦展), is a computer expo held annually at the Taipei World Trade Center in Taipei, Taiwan, and now, one of the largest computer and technology fair in the world. The organizer of Computex is Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), funded by Taiwan government. 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 1990s, 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.

The TWTC (Taipei World Trade Center) Exhibition Hall on Shin-Yi Road was used for Computex for the first time in 1986. The organizer of Computex is Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), funded by Taiwan government.

　The TWTC Exhibition Hall 1, has 7 floors, with a total 159,329 square meters of floor space. Since its opening in 1986, this site has become Taiwan’s major showground. When it's not used for one of the many annual international trade shows, it is often used by various local organizers to stage more than 60 annual consumer and trade exhibitions.

　The TWTC Exhibition Hall 3 with 6,748 square meters of showground space has the capacity for 365 standard exhibition booths. It stands just next to [TAIPEI 101], the Grand Hyatt Hotel and Warner Village.

[edit] History and figures

• COMPUTEX 2009 was held June 2 to June 6 2009.
• COMPUTEX 2008 was held June 3 to June 7 2008 and partially moved to Nangang Exhibition Center.
• COMPUTEX 2007 was held June 5 to June 9 2007.
• COMPUTEX 2006 was held June 6 to June 10 2006 [1].
• COMPUTEX 2005 was held May 31 to June 4 2005, this year has a new feature "Buyer's Day".
• COMPUTEX 2004 was held June 1 to June 5 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 [2]. There were still 1,241 exhibitors and a total of 2,419 booths.
• 2003, Computex became the second largest IT trade show (after CeBIT) in the world, in terms of numbers of exhibitors and visitors.
• 1986, Computex was held in the newly-built TWTC (Taipei World Trade Center) on Shin-Yi Road for the first time.
• 1984, Computex was officially named Computex.
• 1981, the first Taipei Computer Show (the precedent of Computex) was held in the Sung Shan Airport Exhibition Hall.

[edit] See also

• CeBIT (Hanover)
• CES (Las Vegas)

[edit] External links

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• Official COMPUTEX website — TAITRA
• Computex Online — Taipei Computer Association