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CEATEC

Trade show in Japan

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Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (also known as CEATEC) is an annual trade show in Japan. It is regarded as the Japanese equivalent of Consumer Electronics Show. It is Japan's largest IT and electronics exhibition and conference.

01History

The show is held every year in October in Makuhari Messe since the first CEATEC in 2000. The most recent exhibition, the ninth iteration of CEATEC, was held between September 30 to October 4, 2008. CEATEC Japan 2008, attracted nearly 197,000 visitors, with some 804 exhibitors and 138 seminars. Attendance was down from the almost 206,000 people and 895 companies in 2007 as it apparently felt the crunch of the 2008 financial crisis.

02Show highlights

2003

Sony shown off the PSX

2007

Sony and Panasonic announced devices that could play as well as record shows in Blu-ray Disc format.

2014

NTT DoCoMo will show their latest technologies, while both Sharp and SEGA mentioned about attending in their Twitter posts.

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