Today opens the 2008 Computex, the most important expo dedicated to computer components. It is taking place in Taipei, Taiwan, the home to a very large number of players in the PC industry.
Walter Yeh, Executive Vice President TAITRA and Li Chang, Deputy Secretary General Taiwan Computer Association, are rather delighted about the continued success of the Computex.Organized by the TAITRA (Taiwan External Trade Development Council), this year’s event should have almost 135,000 visitors, all professionally related to the industry as the expo is not open to the public. This choice seems to be a good one as each year there has been continued growth, to such an extent that the buildings traditionally used in downtown Taipei have become insufficient. For this reason, a new expo center not in the city center is part of the 2008 edition in addition to the usual smaller halls and surrounding hotel suites. So it’s bigger in size this year but journalists will have to take a shuttle between the two locations.
The brand new Nangang Exhibition Hall which will house a large part of this year’s Computex. This is a necessary evil according to the organizer, which also announced that there will be almost 4500 stands this year, including 668 dedicated to motherboards, graphic cards and other PC components! Of course, we will make our rounds hoping to find a maximum of new technology to share with our readers.
