Today Computex 2008 opened its doors. Computex is running parallel to a WiMAX show in the new World Trade Center exhibition center. Digitimes reports the Taipei Computer Association (TCA) predicts this years show will generate US$20 billion in business from overseas buyers.
We will be visiting the show on Thursday afternoon and between all the show girls we hope to see a few interesting products. We will take a peek at the WiMAX products but mostly focuse on computer products and the like.
Yesterday Taiwan's president spoke about a wireless Taiwan. This also deserves a separate blog but here is what President Ma Ying Jeou said at the opening ceremony:
"Let's together build a home of beauty imbued with the wireless broadband service of WiMAX."
He continued saying:
"We can especially help rural areas and the children there by donating advanced computers with broader, better Internet access."
Yes. He is hoping this technology will be able to bridge the so called digital-divide between rural Taiwan and urban Taiwan. We will see.
Yesterday we also read Nvidia launched a low cost processor dubbed the Tegra to compete against Intel's Atom processor. Intel apparently also released a low power Atom chip that will compete with low power VIA and AMD processors for positioning in low cost notebooks. Once again this deserves a separate blog.
I expect Computex will be a roaring success. Our company is certainly pulling out all the stops with two fairly large stands. I look forward to seeing what they have done. I also look forward to seeing and playing with some of the new computer products on the market.
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