What to anticipate at CES 2026

CES 2026 is right around the corner, and the pre-show hype cycle/ early reveals recommend, sure, there’s going to be an terrible lot of AI-powered insert-product-category-here alongside, fortunately, some main bulletins from the likes of Intel, Sony and NVIDIA.

Intel is lastly unveiling its Panther Lake (Core Extremely Sequence 3) chips. The primary chips constructed on Intel’s 2nm course of might supply a 50 % efficiency enhance, which is sorely wanted amid intense competitors. NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang is taking the stage for a keynote anticipated to characteristic numerous AI hype, whereas AMD’s Lisa Su will probably counter with new Ryzen 9000-series chips and the newest on AI upscaling tech.

Over time, CES has persistently been the present for TV innovation and heady next-gen shows. This 12 months, we’ll be speaking so much about Micro RGB. LG is introducing a brand new Micro RGB Evo panel with over 1,000 dimming zones, whereas Samsung plans to launch a full vary of Micro RGB TVs from 55 inches to 115 inches. In 2025, Sony launched a brand new RGB LED panel that makes use of particular person Mini LED backlights in purple, inexperienced and blue to provide even brighter, extra correct colours. The corporate has trademarked “True RGB,” which might change into what Sony calls its spin on RGB shows.

We’ll be overlaying all of the keynotes, press conferences and large reveals in particular person. And figuring which of the 100s of AI-branded gadgets and devices are price reporting on.

I’m additionally taking bets on probably the most area of interest superstar look/endorsement at CES 2026. We’ve seen 50 Cent, Large Fowl, Martha Stewart, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Guillermo del Toro, Justin Bieber and can.i.am (a number of instances), so who will be part of this pantheon of stars?

— Mat Smith

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The Music Studio 5 and seven might be on show at CES 2026.

It isn’t simply TVs with Samsung. The corporate has already teased a pair of recent understated audio system. Doubtless impressed by the Samsung Body, the brand new Wi-Fi audio system, referred to as the Music Studio 5 and seven, mix into your front room. The Music Studio 5 has a four-inch woofer and twin tweeters, with a built-in waveguide to ship higher sound. The Music Studio 7 comes with a 3.1.1-channel spatial audio with top-, front-, left- and right-firing audio system. No costs but. Anticipate to listen to extra at CES itself or as soon as the audio system arrive in shops. And because the press picture above suggests, we won’t wait to sit down stoically in entrance of 1, with a glass of water (?).

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And a 1-inch sensor, 200MP telephoto digital camera and three,500 nit show.

Xiaomi’s newest smartphone is as soon as once more a spec beast. It contains a 1-inch sensor 50MP f/1.67 primary digital camera and 1/1.4-inch 200MP periscope telephoto digital camera. And it additionally has an fascinating new mechanical characteristic: a handbook zoom ring. This surrounds the rear digital camera unit.

Each the common Xiaomi 17 Extremely and Leica version include a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC with as much as 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 1TB of UFS 4.1 storage, together with a 6.9-inch 120Hz AMOLED show that may hit as much as 3,500 nits of peak brightness.

However the digital camera options are the standout components. The 17 Extremely by Leica provides some very, effectively, Leica touches: a two-tone end, purple dot standing image on the entrance, textured edges and movie simulations, like Leica’s Monopan 50 black and white. Xiaomi says the zoom ring “[eliminates] the necessity for tedious display faucets… and might detect displacements as small as 0.03mm.” It may also be reprogrammed for handbook focus.

Xiaomi’s 17 Extremely by Leica and the common 17 Extremely begin at CNY 7,999 ($1,140) and CNY 6,999 ($995), on par with the newest high-end Pixel 10s and Galaxy S25s.

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A Google help web page in Hindi says the characteristic is ‘progressively rolling out to all customers.’

A Google help web page in Hindi signifies the power to vary your Gmail handle could be coming. The characteristic would permit you to substitute your present @gmail.com handle with one other. Your outdated handle would stay lively as an alias on the account, and all of your information would stick round, unaffected. The help web page (translated) says “the power to vary your Google Account e-mail handle is progressively rolling out to all customers.”

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