What to expect at CES 2025

The holidays haven’t even started yet, but we’re already looking forward to next year, when some of the Engadget team will almost immediately head to Las Vegas to spend… The largest annual technology conference. Offers from companies, both legitimate and skewed, are already filling up our inboxes and spam tabs, so what should get us excited?

“Enthusiastic” may not be the right word, but we expect AI to become more prevalent in the areas of both good and evil exaggerated Knock. There will also be the usual slew of new processors and subsequent laptops. We expect NVIDIA to launch its long-awaited RTX 5000 video cards at CES, while AMD CEO Lisa Su has confirmed that we will see the next generation of RDNA 4 GPUs early next year. While 2024 was a year of endless hype for AI personal computers, 2025 may be a year of reckoning. For example, Microsoft’s long-awaited Summon feature is slowly starting to reach more users, but is still experiencing difficulties. PC makers in 2025 will have to prove that their new AI-enabled machines can live up to their claims.

There are also audio products, electric vehicles, flying electric vehicles (!), and more. Check out the full CES 2024 preview.

– Matt Smith

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