Computex: Three Major International Computer Shows Have Closed Two, The Remaining One Grew in Taipei

30-Second Overview: Computex, the Taipei International Computer Exhibition, is turning 45 this year. It started in 1981 as an export exhibition for small and medium-sized enterprises next to Songshan Airport and has grown into a stage that global AI giants must attend every late May and early June. The two major competitors held during the same period, Germany's CeBIT and the US's COMDEX, have both closed down, leaving only Computex to grow larger and larger. The theme for 2026 is "AI Together." Jensen Huang took the stage in Taipei, and his first words were "It's good to be home." Why do global tech industry leaders fly to Taipei every late May? The answer lies in a cold, hard number: research institutions estimate that nearly 90% of the world's AI servers are assembled on this island.

Good to Be Home

On the morning of June 1, 2026, in Taipei, Jensen Huang took the stage, and his first words were "It's good to be home" ¹.

On the large presentation screen behind him, instead of chip model numbers, were the names of Taiwanese snack shops like Wang Ji Fu Cheng Meat Zong and Fu Ba Wang Pork Knuckles ¹. A Tainan native who moved to the US at age nine and later founded the world's most valuable company in California ² returned to Taipei, calling it "home" and "the starting point of all this" ¹.

During that speech, he unveiled the next-generation computing chip codenamed Vera Rubin, announcing it was "in full production," and showcased a chip called N1X, describing it as the "world's most amazing chip"; he spoke of "the arrival of useful AI" and "the arrival of agentic AI" ¹. But what the audience remembers most might still be the backdrop featuring meat zong and pork knuckles.

The exhibition he stood at is called COMPUTEX, the Taipei International Computer Exhibition. It is 45 years old. And he was not the only one flocking to Taipei that week: AMD's Lisa Su, Intel's Chris Lattner, and Qualcomm's Cristiano Amon, the CEOs of the world's four tech giants, took the stage together for speeches. Huang Chih-fang, Chairman of the Taipei External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), calculated that the market capitalization of the companies belonging to the nearly 30 speakers across these four keynote speeches and forums exceeds ten trillion US dollars ³.

📝 Curator's Note
A question worth pausing to think about: Why do the world's most valuable tech companies choose Taipei, and a computer show that started next to Songshan Airport in 1981, to announce their most critical products? The common explanation is the "Jensen Huang effect," a Taiwanese-American star CEO bringing global attention to Taiwan. But this explanation reverses cause and effect. What Huang Huang returned to was a place that was already impossible to bypass. To understand this, we must start from that small, unheralded exhibition 45 years ago.

The Export Exhibition Next to Songshan Airport

In 1981, Taiwan's personal computer industry was just budding. The first exhibition that year had a simple name: "Taipei Computer Exhibition." It was held at the TAITRA Exhibition Hall next to Songshan Airport, organized by the Taipei Computer Industry Association ⁴⁵.

Its initial function was very practical: to provide a booth for Taiwan's emerging small and medium-sized computer enterprises, allowing them to display motherboards and components to foreign buyers coming to Taiwan for procurement ⁵. It was an era of "Taiwanese money flooding the streets"; the electronic parts culture of Guanghua Shopping District was about to spill over into an export business, and this exhibition was the annual gathering point for that business.

In the second edition, there were only 40 exhibiting companies ⁴. No one would have imagined that over forty years later, this number would become 1,500 companies and 6,000 booths ⁶.

The Year Stan Shih Changed the Name

Acer founder Stan Shih. In 1984, he officially renamed the "Taipei Computer Exhibition" to COMPUTEX TAIPEI, putting up a sign面向 the world for this exhibition; the photo is from his interview at the 2014 Taipei IT Month. Photo: Tony Tseng, 2014-12-05. License via Wikimedia Commons.

1984 was a turning point. According to Wikipedia and multiple reports, Stan Shih (who later became the founder of Acer), then Chairman of the Taipei Computer Industry Association, made the decision to officially rename the exhibition's English name to "COMPUTEX TAIPEI" ⁴⁵. This naming action by a local engineer put up a sign面向 the world for an exhibition that was originally only for Taiwanese companies.

The following year, starting from the fifth edition in 1985, the semi-official Foreign Trade Development Council (TAITRA) joined as a co-organizer, and the Chinese name was also changed to "Taipei International Computer Exhibition" ⁴. From then on, it had two engines: one was a private association that understood the industry and was close to manufacturers' needs, and the other was a trade promotion agency with resources that could push the exhibition internationally. With both engines turning together, the exhibition began to climb.

By 1989, it was already the largest computer exhibition in Asia and ranked third in the world, trailing only Germany's CeBIT in Hanover and the US's COMDEX ⁴. This was the golden age of Taiwan's PC contract manufacturing; brands like ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI, which would later become global brands, all walked out from the booths of this exhibition.

💡 Did You Know
Computex's venues were not "moved" out; they "grew" out. From the Songshan Airport venue in 1981 to the fixed World Trade Center venue on Xinyi Road in 1986, and then successively adding the Taipei International Convention Center, World Trade Center Hall 2 and Hall 3, and from 2008 onwards, incorporating Nangang Exhibition Hall Hall 1 and later Hall 2 ⁴. It continuously expanded its exhibition space outward, like a tree growing branches, without changing pots.

Three Major Computer Shows, Two Died

Entering the new millennium, the scale of the world's three major computer shows began to tilt.

The first to fall was the US's COMDEX. In 2003, as COMDEX declined, the Computex organizing committee officially incorporated Taipei World Trade Center Hall 3 into the exhibition area, and this year it officially climbed to "the world's second largest computer show, behind only CeBIT," and established the scale of four halls opening simultaneously in 2004 ⁴⁵.

The CeBIT 2005 exhibition hall in Hanover, Germany. During the peak of the internet bubble, it once reached 850,000 visitors, making it the undisputed world's number one; it announced its end in 2018. Photo: Florian K, 2005-03-16. License via Wikimedia Commons.

The one that lasted longer was Germany's CeBIT. CeBIT broke away from the long-history Hanover Industrial Fair in 1986; during the peak of the internet bubble, it once reached 850,000 visitors, making it the undisputed world's number one ⁷. But as prosperity peaks, decline follows; the number of visitors and exhibitors declined year by year, and the market was eaten away piece by piece by January's CES, February's MWC, June's Computex, and September's IFA. In November 2018, the organizer announced that CeBIT had entered history ⁷.

The Central News Agency, reporting on CeBIT's closure, pointed out in the news: "The Taipei International Computer Exhibition (Computex) in June every year has geographical advantages for Asian manufacturers seeking orders, and its scale continues to expand" ⁷.

"Geographical advantages" are the key to this entire story.

The three major computer shows: COMDEX closed in 2003, CeBIT closed in 2018, and the remaining one grew in Taipei. Why did it survive?

📝 Curator's Note
The common online saying is "Jensen Huang made Computex great again." But this saying reverses the timeline. COMDEX and CeBIT died in the era before the AI wave, while Computex had been expanding continuously before that. What does an exhibition follow? It follows orders, and orders follow manufacturing. German and US exhibitions are held in places of "demand": buyers, media, press conferences; the Taipei exhibition is held in places of "supply," where things are actually made. When an industry enters a stage where "who can make it" is scarcer than "who can think of it," exhibitions held on the manufacturing side win. Exhibitions do not grow out of thin air; they grow where things are actually made.

The 6,000 Booths No One Filmed

Taipei Nangang Exhibition Hall, the main venue of COMPUTEX in recent years. Every late May and early June, it is packed with buyers from over a hundred countries. Photo: NVIDIA Taiwan, 2016-05-31. License via Wikimedia Commons.

Media lenses always focus on the stage of keynote speeches, on those few CEOs. But Computex's true body is those 6,000 booths ⁶.

The vast majority of booths do not belong to any brand you can name. They are small and medium-sized enterprises making cases, cooling solutions, power supplies, and connectors. No one writes reports about them, but without them, an AI server cannot be assembled. Since the export exhibition next to Songshan Airport in 1981, these "unfilmed" small and medium-sized enterprises have always been the backbone of this exhibition. For example, Kinsus and Sunon, makers of cold plates and quick connectors, whose names are unknown to the general public, are essential cooling components in NVIDIA's scalding hot AI cabinets.

This is exactly what makes Computex different from other tech exhibitions. It is essentially a B2B procurement site; foreign buyers come here to place orders. The exhibition is held on the island with the densest supply chain; buyers can walk through a few booths to assemble the parts of a machine. This efficiency is something Silicon Valley's press conferences cannot provide.

The Decade of "PC is Dead"

However, Computex's path has not been smooth.

In 2012, global PC shipments declined for the first time, and this exhibition, which started with PCs, went downhill ⁵. The saying "PC is dead" began to circulate, as smartphones took away consumers' attention entirely. In 2014, even PC leader Lenovo was absent, and people began to question whether Computex had degenerated into a self-indulgent event for Taiwanese local brands. In 2015, an article circulating in the cross-strait tech circles had the title directly written as "Declining Computex, a game almost self-entertaining" ⁵.

That was also the most awkward era for Computex's image. In its early years, it was famous for its halls full of showgirls; in 2018, it attracted criticism from foreign media for objectifying women and having marketing concepts stuck in the last century. The following year, the External Trade Development Council stepped in, encouraging manufacturers to use more creative marketing; although not explicitly banned, the showgirls on the exhibition floor noticeably decreased ⁸.

Crisis forced transformation. In 2016, Computex established a new startup exhibition, InnoVEX, extending the exhibition's reach from mature PC hardware to artificial intelligence, IoT, and startup teams ⁶. The exhibition's official positioning also quietly changed from "Computer Exhibition" to "Global Leading AIoT and Startup Industry Exhibition" ⁴. In 2020, the pandemic interrupted the physical exhibition, and the organizer moved it online, getting through the hardest year ⁴.

No one knew that this transformation, done to survive, exactly paved the beach for the tsunami three years later.

The Year Jensen Huang Returned

Jensen Huang at Computex Taipei in 2016. Since 2023, he has returned to this exhibition almost every year to announce NVIDIA's latest AI chips. Photo: NVIDIA Taiwan, 2016-05-31. License via Wikimedia Commons.

On May 29, 2023, Jensen Huang took the stage at Computex, delivering his first physical keynote speech after the pandemic, and his first public speech in nearly four years ⁹. He brought the Grace Hopper super chip, announced its official mass production, and presented a DGX GH200 supercomputer that can connect 256 chips using NVLink, achieving computing power of one exaflop; Google, Meta, and Microsoft were the first customers ⁹. His main theme was only one sentence: bringing generative AI into every data center.

The wave of generative AI thus pulled Computex out of the shadow of "PC is dead."

✦ A computer show that has been held for forty years and has been predicted to die for nearly ten years relies not on its own strength, but on the world suddenly needing the place where it is located.

In 2024, the most tech giant CEOs in history gathered in Taipei. The opening keynote speech that year was delivered by AMD's Lisa Su, with Qualcomm, Intel, MediaTek, and Supermicro CEOs taking the stage in succession, while Jensen Huang co-hosted a dialogue with ARM's CEO ³. Beyond the speeches, Huang Huang also held a personal speech at the NTU General Gymnasium that year, with the theme of how AI drives a new round of global industrial revolution. At the end, he thanked Taiwan, saying a sentence that was later repeatedly quoted: "Taiwan is the unsung hero, but the pillar of the world." He also said: "Without Taiwan, NVIDIA's vision is just an unrealizable dream" ¹⁰.

NVIDIA Official Channel: Full version of Jensen Huang's 2024 COMPUTEX keynote speech. He compared generative AI to an "AI factory," with the audience filled with Taiwanese manufacturers from the global supply chain.

Those days, he accompanied 92-year-old Morris Chang and Lite-On's Lin Baili to stroll through Ningxia Night Market, devouring oyster omelets and tofu pudding, with the scenes spreading across Taiwan ¹¹. Two years later, in 2026, he appeared at the night market again, this time bringing his parents, paying for tofu pudding for the queuing people, and smilingly saying "I'm treating, sorry sorry, I brought my dad and mom" ¹². A globally most powerful tech CEO treats Taipei's night market as his own backyard.

By 2025, Computex had become entirely the主场 of AI. The theme that year was "AI NEXT." Jensen Huang spoke at the Taipei Music Center, which could hold 5,000 people, with seats full, announcing the next-generation GB300 chip, and collaborating with Foxconn, the National Science and Technology Council, and TSMC to build Taiwan's AI infrastructure ¹³.

Taipei This Year: AI Together

Thus, we arrive at 2026.

Huang Chih-fang, Chairman of the External Trade Development Council, described this year's Computex as "the first time adopting a dual-exhibition area model; in addition to Nangang Exhibition Hall Hall 1 and Hall 2, it returns to World Trade Center Hall 1, becoming the largest exhibition in history" ¹⁴. 33 countries, 1,500 companies, 6,000 booths, the exhibition period from June 2nd to 5th, estimated to attract 40,000 international buyers ⁶¹⁵.

This year's theme is "AI Together." Huang Chih-fang said this not only represents the new intersection of humans and AI, but "symbolizes Taiwan joining hands with the global tech industry to jointly create a new chapter of future AI civilization" ¹⁴. The exhibition revolves around three main axes: AI and Computing, Robotics and Mobility, and Next-Generation Technology ⁶.

The most notable new focus is robotics. This year, three special zones were specially planned in the returned World Trade Center Hall 1: the AI Robotics Zone, the Electronic Paper Industry Zone, and the Tech Application and Experience Hall, focusing on "Physical AI" and the "embodied intelligence" of robots ¹⁴. In the past few years, AI was still living in the servers of data centers; this year, it is growing limbs and entering the physical world.

After the opening, this newly established AI Robotics Zone became the focus of World Trade Center Hall 1: over 180 companies gathered, assembling a complete supply chain from sensors, motors, reducers to system integration, demonstrating in real-time dynamic displays how robots enter industrial automation, logistics, and healthcare ¹⁶. The most representative is Hiwin Technologies, which started with precision transmission components; this company crossed over to exhibit for the first time, presenting dual-arm logistics robots, humanoid robot core modules, and smart grippers, backed by its self-made ball screws, harmonic reducers, and actuator modules ¹⁷. A Taiwanese company that previously supplied precision parts for machine tools and semiconductor equipment connected the same mechanical skills to the body of "Physical AI" in NVIDIA's mouth. External Trade Development Council Chairman Huang Chih-fang said he expects Taiwan to "further leap from a global tech manufacturing hub to a 'Global AI Solutions Center'" ¹⁶. Foxconn, Pegatron, and other original contract manufacturers of AI servers also showcased robots on the exhibition floor ¹⁸.

The main stage remained star-studded. Jensen Huang spoke first on June 1st, presenting the mass-produced Vera Rubin chip; Qualcomm's Cristiano Amon spoke at the opening ceremony on the same day; AMD's Lisa Su and Intel's Chris Lattner led respectively; Marvell and NXP CEOs also each had speeches on AI infrastructure and Physical AI ³¹⁹. In the exhibition hall, because GPU computing power stacks higher and higher, and air cooling has reached physical limits, liquid cooling became the standard equipment on the booths of major contract manufacturers for the first time ¹⁸.

NVIDIA Official Channel: Full version of Jensen Huang's 2026 GTC Taipei keynote speech. It was this speech where he said "It's good to be home," presented the fully mass-produced Vera Rubin, and the backdrop featured Taipei's meat zong and pork knuckle shop names.

📝 Curator's Note
Note Jensen Huang's backdrop with meat zong and pork knuckles this year, and his sentence "Taipei is the starting point of all this." A tech CEO presenting chips, with the background featuring night market snacks. This image tells the world that the chip he is talking about, from design to becoming a usable machine, every step cannot be separated from this island. The pork knuckles on the backdrop, and the 6,000 booths below the stage making cooling solutions and power supplies, are telling the same story.

90% of Servers, 3% Gross Margin

Pulling the lens back from the stage, we see Computex's true confidence, and its hidden worries.

TSMC factory in Hsinchu Science Park. For an NVIDIA AI chip to become a server that can operate in a data center, the first process happens here—over 90% of the world's most advanced chips are produced by TSMC. Photo: Arusanov, 2009, Public Domain. License via Wikimedia Commons.

For an NVIDIA AI chip to become a server that can operate in a data center, almost every process in between is completed in Taiwan. Chips rely on TSMC for production, with over 90% of the world's most advanced chips coming from its hands; chip packaging relies on TSMC's CoWoS advanced packaging, this process now being the throat of the entire AI computing power supply shortage ²⁰. Server assembly relies on contract manufacturers like Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron; just Foxconn alone accounts for about 40% of the global AI server contract manufacturing market share ²¹. Power supplies rely on Delta Electronics, accounting for about half of the global server power supply market; cooling, connectors, and cases are almost monopolized by Taiwanese companies ²⁰. Research institutions estimate that nearly 90% of the world's AI servers are assembled and shipped by Taiwanese companies ²⁰.

This is Computex's geographical advantage. The design end is in the US, the manufacturing end is in Taiwan, and every late May and early June, the design end flies to the place where the manufacturing end shakes hands, which is this exhibition.

But under the halo of this "home court," there is a shadow very familiar to Taiwanese people. The gross margin of contract assembly has long been only 3 to 5 percentage points; the industry self-mockingly calls it "gross margin of three to four" or "Mao Shan Dao Shi" (Taoist priests) ²¹. On the same supply chain, TSMC's gross margin exceeds 50%, NVIDIA's exceeds 70%. Taiwan earns the hard money of assembling parts, while the upstream few foreign companies hold core intellectual property and design tools. The world's most watched AI exhibition is held in Taipei, but Taiwan stands in a position on the value chain that is "irreplaceable, but not necessarily taking the largest piece."

⚠️ Controversy and Hidden Worries
This position is also weighed down by two heavier stones. One is geopolitics: the past "Silicon Shield" theory believed that Taiwan's irreplaceability in semiconductors was a deterrent against military invasion, but since 2025, international think tanks have started to reverse talk about "the Silicon Shield is turning into a target" ²². The other is energy: here is a counter-intuitive number worth remembering. According to The Reporter's investigation, in 2025, Taiwan's data center electricity consumption only accounted for about 0.5% of the national total; the true electricity-consuming大户 is the semiconductor manufacturing industry, consuming nearly 15% of the national total ²³. In other words, what truly supports Taiwan's AI home court status are those wafer fabs operating day and night, carving out chips, and their huge appetite for electricity; the servers in the exhibition hall are just the end of this power chain. As for the loudly shouted "de-Sinicization" supply chain slogan, the reality is that contract manufacturers like Compal have factories open simultaneously in Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Mexico, and the US, representing a "China Plus N" distributed layout, and have not truly withdrawn from China ¹⁵.

The halo and the shadow are two sides of the same thing. Taiwan is the home court of Computex precisely because it has made "manufacturing," a task outsourced by many advanced countries, irreplaceable; and the price of being irreplaceable is betting the entire island's electricity, geopolitical risks, and industrial focus on this supply chain.

Taipei is the Starting Point of All This

In 1984, Stan Shih changed the "Taipei Computer Exhibition" to an English name面向 the world; at that time, Taiwan was still a small island contracting motherboard production for international giants.

Forty-two years later, in 2026, Jensen Huang stands on the same exhibition, with meat zong and pork knuckles behind him, saying "It's good to be home," saying "Taipei is the starting point of all this" ¹. In these forty-two years, COMDEX closed, CeBIT closed, and computer exhibitions around the world closed one by one; only this exhibition, which grew next to Songshan Airport, grew larger and larger.

It did not become smarter than others; it just grew in the right place. Exhibitions follow orders, orders follow manufacturing, and manufacturing stayed on this island. The next time you see news about "Jensen Huang coming to Taiwan," you can read it this way: that is the global computing infrastructure returning every year to the place where it is truly assembled, for a pilgrimage.

Further Reading:

• Semiconductor Industry: 50 Years of Material Revolution from RCA Technology Transfer to Gallium Nitride and Quantum Packaging — The material science battlefield behind TSMC and CoWoS advanced packaging, supporting Computex's home court status
• Taiwan Artificial Intelligence Development and Future Strategy — From hardware supply chain to AI applications, Taiwan's position and choices in this wave
• Taiwan Robotics Industry — The foundation of Taiwan's robotics supply chain, the focus of Computex 2026's "Physical AI" and embodied intelligence
• Taiwan Electric Vehicle Industry Chain Development — How the same batch of electronic contract manufacturers extended from assembling computers to assembling cars and robots

Image Sources

This article uses 6 Wikimedia Commons public domain / CC licensed images, all cached in public/article-images/technology/ to avoid hotlinking to the source server; plus embedded 2 NVIDIA Official Channel YouTube videos (Jensen Huang 2024, 2026 keynote speeches):

• Computex Taipei sign inside Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center — Photo: Masaru Kamikura, 2011-05-31, CC BY 2.0 (hero image: COMPUTEX exhibition hall and sign inside Nangang Exhibition Hall)
• Stan Shih at Taipei IT Month 2014 — Photo: Tony Tseng, 2014-12-05, CC BY 2.0 (Stan Shih interview at Taipei IT Month 2014)
• CeBIT Hannover 2005 — Photo: Florian K, 2005-03-16, CC BY-SA 3.0 (German CeBIT 2005 exhibition hall crowd, world's largest computer exhibition, discontinued in 2018)
• TSMC factory Hsinchu — Photo: Arusanov, 2009, Public Domain (PD) (TSMC factory in Hsinchu Science Park)
• Computex Taipei at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center — Photo: NVIDIA Taiwan, 2016-05-31, CC BY 2.0 (Nangang Exhibition Hall main venue exterior)
• Jensen Huang at Computex Taipei — Photo: NVIDIA Taiwan, 2016-05-31, CC BY 2.0 (Jensen Huang speech on Computex stage)

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