Announcing the 35 Winners of COMPUTEX Best Choice Award
Asia’s leading B2B ICT
Platfrom, COMPUTEX TAIPEI returns from June 5 to 9. Today, one of the
co-organizers of, Taipei Computer Association (TCA) announced the winners of
the 17th Best Choice Award (also known as BC Award), the Official
Award of COMPUTEX. The 35 winning products covered 5 major themes of business
solutions, living technology, in-vehicle technology, gaming &
entertainment, and smart home. The Best Choice of the Year award winner will be
announced on the opening ceremony of COMPUTEX on June 5. Visitors can see all
the winning products in Nangang Exhibition Hall Booth I0307 during COMPUTEX.
The Trends: Deep Integration
of Software and Better User Experience
TCA pointed out that there are over 350
products which registered for this year’s Best Choice Award. The main feature
of the winners is “fulfilling the customers demand”. This means the products
must be able to provide a high add-on value by having high performance, low
power consumption, and better user experience. For example: gaming products now
no longer compete on specifications only; deeper software integration and better
user interface becomes the main differentiation between brands.
The Winning Factors: UX and
AI
The judges awarded a total of 35
products with 36 awards; 8 of them won the Golden Award (details of the winners
are attached). 3 Special Awards are also given for specific criteria. The
Jury’s Special Award is given to SMEs whose innovative products have high
market potential. The Best Design Award is given to products with the most
outstanding ID design and the Green ICT Award for the most environmentally
friendly products.
The juries stated that many applicants
put a higher importance on user experience. For example, computers and
motherboards are already mature products, which is why the design and market
segment become more specialized and have high quality: energy usage, sound &
video quality, size, or other aspects.
In addition, due to the growing
popularity of AI technologies, the applicants have also implemented AI
computing functions to provide better user experience or better business
intelligence; improving competitiveness in more aspects than hardware.
COMPUTEX TAIPEI Returns on
June 5 with More AI, IoT, and Startups
During today’s press
conference, TCA pointed out that this year’s COMPUTEX will have 1,602
exhibitors from 30 countries that will in total use 5,015 booths. The main
topics of COMPUTEX are: AI, Blockchain, 5G, Gaming & VR, and IoT. COMPUTEX
will include 2 special exhibitions; the startup focused [InnoVEX] and
integrated IoT solutions focused [SmarTEX].
※ Best Choice Award 2018 winner list please click here.