| COMPUTEX Taipei | |
|---|---|
 COMPUTEX Taipei logo since 2010 | |
.jpg) Attendees at Computex Taipei 2017 | |
| Status | Active |
| Genre | computer expo |
| Venue | Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC) Exhibition Hall, Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall |
| Location(s) | Taipei, Taiwan  |
| Inaugurated | 1981 |
| Most recent | 7 June 2024 |
| Next event | 20-23 May 2025 |
| Organized by | Taiwan External Trade Development Council and Taipei Computer Association |
| Website | computextaipei.com.tw |
COMPUTEX Taipei, or Taipei International Information Technology Show (Chinese: 台北國際電腦展; pinyin: Táiběi guójì diànnǎo zhǎn), is a computer expo held annually in Taipei, Taiwan. Since the early 2000s, it is one of the largest computer and technology trade shows in the world.[1]
The most recent COMPUTEX was held from 4 June to 7 June 2024 with sessions about such topics as high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, next-gen connectivity and sustainability.[2]
COMPUTEX 2020 was cancelled after a delay from early June to 28 September due to public health safety concerns of the COVID-19 pandemic.[3][4]
COMPUTEX is co-organized by government-funded Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and private sector Taipei Computer Association (TCA). The first expo, then called Taipei Computer Show, was held in 1981 and started out as a place where small and medium-sized businesses in Taiwan's nascent computer industry could display their products. Stan Shih, a former head of the TCA, proposed to change to the current name in the fourth expo[citation needed]. As Taiwan's information technology industry took off in the early 1990s and as the Foreign Trade Council Display Hall in Taipei Songshan Airport was put back into use in the eighth and ninth expo, COMPUTEX has since rapidly expanded and become an important showcase for the IT industry globally.[5] On 28 November 2018 (the same day that Deutsche Messe AG announced that there would not be a 2019 CeBIT),[6] it became the largest computer expo in the world, with participation from major manufacturers such as Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and others, as well as Taiwanese brand names such as Acer and ASUS.
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