Since this week our website is going to be dominated by news, blogs and videos about Computex, I thought I should just write a little bit about what it is, in case you don’t know.

 

Computex is Taiwan’s largest annual trade show for PC/IT products. Just about all of the major motherboard manufacturers are based in Taiwan, not to mention a slew of other manufacturing and design houses in the industry. But they’re not the only ones who display their wares at the event, US companies like Intel and AMD also spend a good deal of cash lighting up their booths and wining and dining the media that flock from all over the world.

 

Computex is a place where IT media strike advertising deals and sales people from small system integrators right up to large OEMs, meet face to face with their account reps to cement relationships and find out what their business partners have planned for the rest of the year. Much of the business is done in the surrounding bars and restaurants of the Taiwan Trade Centre.

 

This year, for the first time, the show has been split in two. It has gotten to tbe too big for the trade halls at the Taiwan International Commerce Centre (TICC), so a new venue was purpose built some 30-45 minutes away by shuttle in Nangang province.

 

At Computex you can find displays by major manufacturers as well as a sea of peripherals like mice and a seemingly never-ending array of flash drives. We’ll try to keep our coverage to the big boys in the industry!