{"id":732,"date":"2025-01-06T02:23:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T02:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/?p=732"},"modified":"2025-01-06T02:25:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T02:25:01","slug":"732","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/2025\/01\/06\/732\/","title":{"rendered":"CES 2025: What to expect from the year\u2019s first and biggest tech show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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CES 2025 officially kicks off in Las Vegas on the morning of Tuesday, January 7 and runs through the end of the day on January 10. The \u201cofficial\u201d dates are specific to when the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center is open to attendees, and ultimately belie the show\u2019s true duration. A pair of press days kick off Sunday with a few smaller events leading up to a scrum of press conferences on January 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AMD<\/strong>(Monday at 11 a.m. PT\/2 p.m. ET<\/strong>): AMD has its work cut out for it at CES 2025. Competitor Nvidia has been sucking the oxygen out of every room it graces, as the chipmaker remains at the forefront of the AI boom. So, how will AMD compete with Nvidia\u2019s reported RTX 5000 announcement? The company should show off its own next-gen GPU. As part of an ongoing rebrand, the RDNA 4 cards could arrive as either the RX 8000 or RX 9000 series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toyota<\/strong>(Monday at 4 p.m. PT\/7 p.m ET<\/strong>): We expect Chairman Akio Toyoda to go all in on Woven City, the carmarker\u2019s \u201cliving laboratory.\u201d Our automotive editor Kirsten Korosec adds: \u201cDetails are slim about exactly what will be revealed. TechCrunch, which was at the initial announcement in 2020, will be watching to see how startups will be incorporated into Woven City and whether Toyota followed through on its plans to build a fully connected ecosystem powered by hydrogen fuel cells.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samsung<\/strong>(Monday at 5 p.m. PT\/8 p.m. ET<\/strong>): Samsung\u2019s CES presser is always an odd duck. The Korean electronics giant generally keeps its powder dry when it comes to consumer electronics. After all, it\u2019s expected to announce its latest flagship handset \u2014 the Galaxy S25 \u2014 toward the end of January. CES 2025 is going to continue the company\u2019s tradition of TVs and appliances. There are also odds and ends like consumer robots that will most likely never see the light of day. Samsung has adopted the tagline \u201cAI for All: Everyday, Everywhere\u201d for the presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nvidia<\/strong>(Monday at 6:30 p.m. PT\/9:30 p.m. ET<\/strong>): Nvidia will no doubt have the biggest CES 2025. After all, the company has pretty much the biggest everything nowadays. The chip giant is sporting a $3.4+ trillion market cap, due largely to its foundational position in the ongoing AI boom. Companies like OpenAI and Meta have purchased Nvidia processors by the boatload, and that\u2019s unlikely to change in the new year. Founder and CEO Jensen Huang will help kick off CES 2025 \u201cwith his trademark leather jacket and an unwavering vision,\u201d per Nvidia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notable keynotes from the following day include Twitter\/X CEO Linda Yaccarino at 1:30 p.m. PT and Delta CEO Ed Bastian at 5 p.m. PT. The latter, notably, will take place at jam band hot spot the Sphere. Both will be available to stream at the officialCES YouTube page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The show\u2019shot topicwill almost certainly be the only thing anyone in tech seems to talk about these days: AI. That\u2019s nothing new for CES, of course. The category has been at the forefront for years now, with 2024\u2019s show delivering some of the earliest generative-AI-powered consumer devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TheRabbit R1was, perhaps, the most notable from last year\u2019s show. The handheld generated a lot of buzz at the event, though as with other AI devices likeHumane\u2019s AI Pin, the product failed to live up to any expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The subject won\u2019t be limited to this manner of product, however. This year, any product thatdoesn\u2019t<\/em>mention AI in some form will be in a small minority. As mentioned above, Nvidia and AMD will be going head-to-head on the chip front. Nvidia will be a particular focus, as the chipmaker sets the stage pace for AI in 2025, including the release of the much anticipated GeForce RTX 50 GPU. The company will also touch on other key categories, including robotics and transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI will grace everything from cars to refrigerators this year. Some applications will prove genuinely useful, but many \u2014 if not most \u2014 will be a solution in search of a problem. This is always an important thing to keep in mind at an event like CES. It\u2019s a huge show \u2014 last year\u2019s eventhosted4,300 companies and nearly 140,000 attendees. There\u2019s a lot of noise, and plenty of AI \u201capplications\u201d exist in attempt to rise above it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over the past decade, CES has transformed into one of the year\u2019s top automotive shows. This has primarily been driven by automotive manufacturers\u2019 bids to become bleeding-edge pioneers: Where better to showcase that than the year\u2019s biggest consumer tech show? The 2021 addition of the Las Vegas Convention Center\u2019s West Hall has facilitated that expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Questions remain about whether CES can maintain its status as a major car show. Anecdotally, fewer large names appear to be participating in a meaningful way, including U.S. manufacturers like Ford. This is likely due, in part, to Detroit\u2019s North American International Auto Show returning after a year off. That event is set to kick off January 10, overlapping with CES.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s not to say that there won\u2019t be big headlines out of Vegas next week. In addition to Toyota\u2019s participation, Sony\u2019s press conference should once again feature Afeela, the company\u2019s collaboration with Honda. Firms like Hyundai \u2014which now owns Boston Dynamics\u2014 will likely showcase its focus on humanoid and other robotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robotics have increasingly become a focus point for CES in recent years. I anticipate most transportation companies discussing the topic, from manufacturing to eVTOLs. The car industry has been the tip of the automated manufacturing spear for years, a fact accelerated by various employment and supply chain crises since the pandemic. Meanwhile, eVTOLs scored a majorFAA winlate last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CES continues to be a major launching pad for computer monitors. In fact, Samsung, ASUS, and MSI all announced the addition of\u201cthe world\u2019s first\u201d 27-inch 4K OLED monitorswith 240Hz refresh rates. Smart appliances always get a lot of love at the show as well.LG has already revealeda bunch of news on that front. Samsung should follow suit at its press conferences on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After an extended lull, I anticipate a new wave of smart home devices. Between interoperability through theMatter standard, the explosion of generative AI platforms, and a second wind for smart assistants from Google, Amazon, and Apple, companies will be showcasing how these devices might excel where their predecessors failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After its latest hype cycle, extended reality still has a lot to prove. The Vision Pro hasn\u2019t taken off as Apple had hoped, and competitors are struggling to compete with Meta\u2019s ability to subsidize the cost of the Quest. Big names in the space like HTC and Magic Leap have largely pivoted to enterprise applications. Chipmakers like Qualcomm, however, are still very much focused on making a splash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CES 2025 officially kicks off in Las Vegas on the morning of Tuesday, January 7 and runs through the end of the day on January 10. The \u201cofficial\u201d dates are specific to when the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center is open to attendees, and ultimately belie the show\u2019s true duration. A pair of … Continue reading CES 2025: What to expect from the year\u2019s first and biggest tech show<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-2","category-samsung","category-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}