History and Figures
- COMPUTEX 2012 was held June 5 to June, 9 2012.
- COMPUTEX 2011 was held May 31 to June 4, 2011.
- COMPUTEX 2010 was held June 1 to June 5, 2010.
- COMPUTEX 2009 was held June 2 to June 6, 2009.
- COMPUTEX 2008 was held June 3 to June 7, 2008 and expanded to TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall.
- COMPUTEX 2007 was held June 5 to June 9, 2007.
- COMPUTEX 2006 was held June 6 to June 10, 2006.
- COMPUTEX 2005 was held May 31 to June 4, 2005, adding a new feature "Buyer's Day".
- COMPUTEX 2004 was held June 1 to June 5, 2004. There were 1,347 exhibitors, 118,052 visitors, and a gross exhibit space of 58,730 square meters.
- COMPUTEX 2003 was scheduled to be held in June. Due to SARS outbreak in Asia, however, the show was postponed to September. There were still 1,241 exhibitors and a total of 2,419 booths, and COMPUTEX became the second largest IT trade show in the world in terms of numbers of exhibitors and visitors.
- COMPUTEX 1986 was moved to the newly-built TWTC Exhibition Hall on Xinyi Road for the first time.
- In 1984, the expo was officially named COMPUTEX.
- In 1981, the first Taipei Computer Show (the precedent of Computex) was held in the Songshan Airport Exhibition Hall.
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