PC hardware's best trade-show is 'confident' it will return to Taipei this year

Computex show floor photography — (Image credit: Jacob Ridley)

The organisers of Computex, TAITRA, is confident that the exhibition will be in-person in 2022. That means we could see one of PC gaming's largest and most exciting tech shows may return to Taipei after two years out due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

"We are very confident that the onsite, physical show will return," said Li, a Computex Show manager, during a recent update video.

Li cited the country's high vaccination rate and last year's reopening of Taiwan's exhibitions as reasons why TAITRA was confident in the show's return.

It pays to have a backup plan, however. Computex 2022 is still set be a hybrid event: The physical show running from May 24–27, and the digital show, DigitalGO, from May 24 to June 6.

Here's hoping there's something for us PC gamers out of the Taiwan tech show, which may feel somewhat invigorated by its return to an in-person event.

That's the difficulty facing any event that brings thousands of people together: Covid-19 hasn't gone away and is still able to impact even the best laid plans.

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Here's hoping that Computex 2022 can return to some semblance of normalcy, though, providing the health and safety of those attending is given the utmost priority. I'm not just saying that as a huge fan of Taipei that really, really wants to go back, either. Though that definitely holds true. There's just something about Computex that feels like the heart of PC gaming as a hobby—modded PCs, strange components, and extreme overclocked builds are common on the Computex show floor.

Where else are you going to see an gaming PC modded to look like an Apex loot box in front of a Heineken gaming PC that actually dispenses beer?

Jacob earned his first byline writing for his own tech blog, before graduating into breaking things professionally at PCGamesN. Now he's managing editor of the hardware team at PC Gamer, and you'll usually find him testing the latest components or building a gaming PC.