More than 2,200 technology firms from across the globe will unveil their latest innovations and products at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that kicks off on January 5. Let’s look at some of the top technologies and products to be unveiled at the annual electronics show that could shape the world of technology in the year ahead.
This week, the Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in Las Vegas amid fresh turmoil impacting the technology industry. The recent Omicron surge threatens to worsen existing supply chain and logistical challenges. The ongoing global chip shortage looks set to continue for another two years, and current cybersecurity woes, including the exploitation of Apache’s Log4j, continue to threaten the very survival of many businesses.Â
Despite many such disruptions in the past couple of years, innovations and advancements have continued to drive the industry forward, be it recent developments in AI, robotics, software development, cybersecurity, or big data analytics. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, several new technology products will be unveiled that will usher in a new era of high-performance computing, driving many more use cases in the year ahead. Let’s look at some of the top technologies to be unveiled at CES between January 5 and 7.
Intel Alder Lake 12th Gen Processors
The keynote of semiconductor giant Intel is scheduled for Day 1 of CES 2022. The company is likely to showcase the next generation of its popular Alder Lake processors, although the company hasn’t officially confirmed this yet. However, Intel had been teasing the launch through a series of tweets since December last year.
Meet the multitasking master of making multitasking easier. 12th Gen #IntelCoreOpens a new window processors divide so you can conquer.
— Intel at #CES2022 (@intel) January 3, 2022Opens a new window
The “new developments†that the new range of personal computing processors feature remain under wraps until the company’s keynote kicks off on January 4 at 1 PM EST (10 AM PST). The most prominent #IntelCore series upgrade is expected to be a whopping 5.5 GHz boost clock inOpens a new window one of its flagship PC processors, possibly the 12th generation Core i9 or Core i9-12900KS. Currently, the highest frequency of an Intel PC processor stands at 5 GHz (Core i9-12900K) or 5.2 GHz using Turbo Boost Max Technology.
Gregory Bryant, EVP and general manager of the Client Computing Group and Lisa Pearce, VP of Visual Compute Group at Intel, will introduce the new processors. Besides the flagship processors, including the Alder Lake K and P series, Intel will exhibit the Alder Lake M CPUs, its entry-level offering, and a non-K-series one.
Intel is on a quest to reconquer the semiconductor industry after slipping in past years through a series of missteps that saw the U.S-based giant lose its crown to rivals. The company is working to achieve its new goals in a new roadmap it adopted in July 2021. The company also rehired long-time Intel veteran Pat Gelsinger in February 2021 to see it through.
Watch Intel live at CES 2022 hereOpens a new window .
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AMD Ryzen Processors and Zen 4
Before Intel takes the virtual stage, American rivals AMD and NVIDIA will set the ball rolling with their lineup of next-generation products. AMD is scheduled to begin its keynote address at 10 AM EST (7 AM PST). Like Intel, AMD has also been mum on what it has in store for consumers.
AMD has said its lineup will include computing and graphics solutions to be introduced by AMD president and CEO Dr. Lisa Su at CES. So expect CPU and GPU products at the AMD Product Premiere, possibly including the Ryzen 6000 Series Mobile processor. Like Ryzen 5000 (Vermeer) and Epyc server processors (Milan), Ryzen 6000 may also be based on the existing Zen 3 architecture considering Zen 4 is expected to be released later in 2022. However, AMD CTO Mark Papermaster said Zen 4 will undoubtedly be introduced at CES 2022.Â
“As it [the year] progresses, we’ll share more details on Zen 4 with some mentioned at CES and more announcements on it over the course of 2022,†he told Forbes.
Based on the Zen 4 (5 nm) architecture, some upcoming processors that users can expect are Ryzen 7000 Raphael, Ryzen 7000 Phoenix, and EPYC 7004 Genoa CPUs. Zen 4 could deliver as much as 25% IPC gain over Zen 3.
At this point, we can only speculate on the power output, Thermal Power Design (TDP) based core distribution, L3 cache size, or the use of newer DDR5 memory standards as opposed to the current DDR4. Papermaster assured of bigger and better performance by claiming, “As we enter 2022, we’ll be taking a product line [Ryzen 5000] that we’re already proud of, and put it on steroids.â€
For reference, Zen 3 is based on the 7 nm process, and the desktop processors based on it (5000 series) deliver up to a 19% instruction per cycle (IPC) improvement over Zen 2, 4.9 GHz frequency boost, 32 MB L3 cache, 105 W power, and is the last architecture to use DDR4 memory.
Watch AMD live at CES 2022 hereOpens a new window .
NVIDIA GPUs
NVIDIA’s lineup of new products may include the following graphics cards:
- GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
- GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
- GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB
- GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU for laptops
- GeForce RTX 3050
These processors are rumored to have specifications listed in the table below. Note that the upcoming ones are bolded and underlined while their predecessors are listed for reference.
| Graphics Card | Memory Type | Memory Clock | Memory Bandwidth | Core Clock |
| GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | GDDR6X | 21 Gbps | 1 TB/s | NA |
| Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 | 24 GB GDDR6X | 19.5 Gbps | 936 GB/s | 1.4 GHz |
| GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB | 12 GB | NA | 760 GB/s to 912 GB/s | NA |
| GeForce RTX 3080 | 10 GB GDDR6X | 19 Gbps | 760.3 GB/s | 1.44 GHz |
| GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU for laptops | 16GB GDDR6 | 16 Gbps | 512 GB/s | 1.395 GHz |
| GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | 12GB GDDR6X | 19 Gbps | 912.4 GB/s | 1.37 GHz |
| GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB | 16GB GDDR6 | 21 Gbps | 1000 GB/s | NA |
| GeForce RTX 3070 | 8 GB GDDR6 | 14 Gbps | 448.0 GB/s | 1.5 GHz |
| GeForce RTX 3050 | 8GB of GDDR6 | NA | NA | NA |
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Gaming laptops featuring NVIDIA GPUs are also expected along with cloud gaming advancements. Besides gaming, NVIDIA may also augment its own Metaverse ambitions through Omniverse, a platform for real-time physical 3D simulation for virtual collaboration as well as automation and autonomous AI driving.Â
Jeff Fisher, senior vice president of GeForce, and Ali Kani, vice president and general manager of Automotive will present NVIDIA new products at 11 AM EST (8 AM PST). Watch it live hereOpens a new window .
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PCIe 5.0 SSDs Demonstrated Ahead of CES 2022Â
Adata has teased some of the gadgets on display at its CES pavilion. There appears to be a lot on display, but a pair of prototype PCIe 5.0 SSDs could draw the most eyeballs. Project Nighthawk and Project Blackbird are the names given to the prototype PCIe 5.0 SSDs. They’ll both have a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface and support the NVMe 2.0 protocol (including support for mechanical hard drives). Each drive can hold up to 8TB of data.
Even Intel and Samsung have demonstrated the speed of the new SSD PM1743 PCIe NVMe Connected to PCIe 5.0 interface on PlayStation 5. According to the companies, the new module is two times faster than conventional PS5 storage, enabling quick loading in games like Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The Ps5 comes with a 5.5 Gb/s SSD that may be used for data processing.
Perks of the job! Was going to save this demo for #CES2022Opens a new window but with that off the table, why not just share it with everyone right now?! Here’s a 12th Gen â¦@intelOpens a new window â© Core i9-12900K system paired with a new â¦@SamsungOpens a new window â© PM1743 PCIe 5.0 SSD getting over 13GB/s!! pic.twitter.com/oyL08KzDtVOpens a new window
— Ryan Shrout (@ryanshrout) December 30, 2021Opens a new window
According to Samsung, enterprise customers would benefit from a 30% increase in power efficiency and additional security measures.
The question remains if the major players in the SSD industry will tease their latest drives following big moves by Adata and Samsung. Companies like Western Digital, Kingston, and Seagate are undoubtedly developing fast PCIe 5.0 SSDs. However, without specialized CPU-linked PCIe 5.0 lanes, we might have to wait until Intel’s 13th Gen and Zen 4 CPUs, and motherboards see broad usage of these devices.
Microsoft’s Pluton Security Processor
Having launched Windows 11 in 2021, Microsoft is now using CES 2022 to announce its latest security processor, Pluton. The OS giant says the new processor is “designed to store sensitive data, like encryption keys, securely within the Pluton hardware, which is integrated into the die of a device’s CPU and is therefore more difficult for attackers to access, even if they have physical possession of a device.†The processor first debuted in Xbox and Azure Sphere and is now being integrated into Windows 11-powered devices to offer enhanced security to Windows users.
At CES 2022, Lenovo and AMD will unveil their first Pluton-powered PCs and as the year progresses, we expect to see more desktop and laptop manufacturers unveil new secure-core devices powered by the new chip. According to David Weston, Microsoft’s director of Enterprise and OS Security, Pluton is already configured as the TPM 2.0 for Windows 11 in devices like the Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 and Z16 and helps protect Windows Hello credentials by keeping them further isolated from attackers.
“Our OEM partners are leveraging platforms from silicon partners to begin offering customers Windows systems with Pluton enabled. This is the start of a journey with the Windows ecosystem to bring the Pluton benefits of cloud-delivered, up-to-date protection, physical attack resilience and established security features to more Windows systems over time,†he said in a blog postOpens a new window .
Mobileye’s New Dedicated SoC for Autonomous Vehicles
CES 2022 will feature great new updates for the autonomous vehicles (AV) industry, but the one drawing the most eyeballs is Mobileye’s latest purpose-built system-on-chip (SoC) for AVs. Developed to support self-driving vehicles in 2022, according to Mobileye, the SoC does the work of 10 EyeQ5 SoCs in a single package. It offers features like advanced driver-assistance solutions in the Ford BlueCruise platform and advanced mapping technology in VW, Å koda and Seat brands.
If you’re looking for more announcements from the AV industry at CES, there’s plenty to choose from. Texas Instruments will showcase a new 77-GHz AWR2944 radar sensor that can detect objects 40% further away than existing sensors, and semiconductor giant Qualcomm unveiled a modular computer vision software stack to power front and surround cameras in AV driving systems. Named the Snapdragon Ride Vision System, the 4nm SoC-based software stack will be available from 2024. Â
Nvidia has also announced it will showcase its latest DRIVE Hyperion platform, which is based on a high-performance computer and sensor architecture to make autonomous vehicles safer in the future. The company says the new platform includes 12 state-of-the-art surround cameras, 12 ultrasonics, nine radar, three interior sensing cameras and one front-facing lidar. It has already been adopted by hundreds of automakers, truck makers, tier 1 suppliers and robotaxi companies.
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