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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2002
By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 4--TAIPEI--Asia's biggest high-tech trade show, Computex Taipei, would never be mistaken for its American rival, the huge Comdex show held every autumn in Las Vegas.
Comdex is a lot bigger, for starters. More than 200,000 visitors generally show up. By contrast, Computex Taipei, which opened here yesterday, is expected to draw just 60,000 visitors. A visitor to Comdex would see exhibits by dozens of well-known computer brands. Most of the businesses at Computex are unknown to the average consumer.
And yet these obscure companies, with names like First International Computer, Wistron, Asustek, and Abit, produce a huge volume of the world's computer hardware....
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