Back in Taiwan to Attend Computex 2026

One of the great parts of running a tech related website is attending trade shows to learn about new trends and see what hardware may soon be available.  If you happen to follow my travels I afford myself two trips a year, CES or the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and Computex in Taiwan.  CES is great because it is close to where I live and may of the vendors I work with are there or around the event in area hotels.  Sadly, CES has very little to do with what I cover on Hardware Asylum and is where Computex tends to do much better.

Computex started as a sales related trade show to attract international visitors looking to buy electronics hardware and services.  The show was opened up to media to help promote the event and is where I got involved in the early 2000’s.  Computex back then was a very different show, it felt small due to the location but was always packed with people.  Since then the show has moved to larger facilities allowing vendors to expand the sizes of their booths and is when the show changed from a vendor and sales focus to marketing and presentation.  The items are still there but, the purpose to attend is more about networking and making contacts over something a media person would report on.

This year for Computex 2026 the show has expanded once again to encompass the two Nangang Exhibition buildings with additional exhibits at the World Trade Center.  The Taiwan World Trade Center has been the host of Computex since I first started attending and brings back fond memories of shoulder to shoulder crowds and how you can quickly lose people when attempting to migrate the sea of people.

Sadly, the additional “halls” that were part of Computex have since been demolished to make way for new shopping centers and whatever this round skyscraper will eventually become.  This location is one of the last buildings associated with Computex from when I first started visiting and is a reminder of how fast things change in the world of technology.