GoKawiilWith the show floor officially open, there's plenty to see and do at the Nanggang Exhibition Center at Computex 2026. However, the reality is that for most of our team, that's not the only place that they will have to visit. At events like these, companies regularly schedule meetings outside of Computex 2026 itself, either to secure more space for their products or to show off products and concepts that aren't strictly ready for the show floor and the thousands of attendees.
In our Day 3 blog, our team of staffers has crossed Taipei, photographed exciting new hardware, and experienced the dizzying halls of TaiNEX 1 and 2. If you've not caught up on their journeys so far, be sure to read Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 first.
Paul Alcorn: Editor-in-Chief
Another blistering day in the heat of Taiwan started with a meeting with a high-ranking Micron executive to talk about the state of the memory and storage industry. I learned a lot that I will crystallize into an article soon.
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After that nice air-conditioned chat, I hit the halls, moving between multiple vendors to see the latest the industry has to offer. Asus, ROG, MSI, Patriot, Adata, and many others kept me busy throughout the day, particularly as I dug deeper into the side effects of the memory shortages. Unfortunately, not a single individual we spoke with expects any sort of recovery soon, and this will have dramatic effects on smaller module makers, the companies that make SSDs and DRAM, and a cascading effect on the other OEMs.
In fact, though Computex easily had record attendance, the halls were busier on day two than I have ever seen in my 15 years of covering this event; there were relatively few substantive announcements on the PC front. In fact, even the announcements on the data center and ODM side were exceptionally light, largely due to the impacts of supply shortages and the resulting uncertainty that has slammed the brakes on new product development.
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Joe Shields: Staff Writer, Components
Three days in, and another day of 90-degree heat. It’s amazing how you can break a sweat here just by walking outside early in the morning. Today’s adventures included floating back and forth between the halls and meeting with several companies. I’ll tell you, if I see another booth with CDUs (Cooling Distribution Units), copper water blocks for AI servers, or PDUs (Power Distribution Units) supporting the AI Data Center boom, I’ll explode.
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