With the whirlwind holiday season behind us, the PCMag team is heading back to Las Vegas in the coming days . The show floor proper opens on Tues., Jan. 7, but you can expect to see plenty of crucial announcements in the days leading up to it. The show has evolved over the years, with many large vendors preferring their own standalone launch events to the traditional flashy trade show press conference. But the major players are still trekking to the desert. CES 2024 135,000+ attendees and more than 4,300 exhibitors, including 60% of Fortune 500 companies, according to the Consumer Technology Association, which hosts CES.
When it comes to CES 2025 will bring a truckload of improvements and changes. The mobile processor market is the most competitive it’s been in living memory, and Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm are all rumored to be announcing chips at the show alongside buffed-up PCs that run them, from budget systems to high-end gaming rigs. If the current trends hold, these chips will offer better energy efficiency and performance, especially on AI tasks.
And don’t forget about Nvidia! The graphics and AI giant is rumored to be announcing for both desktop and mobile, and possibly a DLSS revamp for boosted performance. If those rumors are true, expect a bunch of to also be announced, with leveled-up graphics power inside. With AMD also expected to have a big presence at the show, it wouldn’t surprise us if new AMD GPUs were also announced.