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Computex, the world’s second-biggest IT trade fair, does not officially start until Tuesday but the hype surrounding which tablet computer will challenge the iPad as the hottest product of the year is already in full swing, writes Robin Kwong in techblog.

Jen-hsun Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, the specialist graphics card company that also supplies chips for tablet PCs, kicked things off with a prediction that within five years “tablets will be the world’s biggest computing category”. Huang said tablets may even surpass netbooks and notebook PCs in terms of volume.