The new technology we are looking forward to and hope to see in Las Vegas

The holiday season has just begun, but some of us are already gearing up for CES 2025. Right after New Year’s Day, most of the Engadget team will be packing our bags to fly to Las Vegas, where we’ll learn about the year’s hottest technology. meeting. As usual, our inboxes are already full of leads from companies planning to be there, and our calendars are filling up with appointments for briefings and demos.

Based on our experience, and recent industry trends, it’s easy to make some smart predictions about what we’ll see in January. Over the years, the conference’s focus has been on areas such as TVs, cars, smart home products and personal health, and laptops and embedded devices. At CES 2025, we hope to see AI become more widespread in all areas. of the show floor. But we can also find new processors and the next laptops, as well as all kinds of clothes, recorders, bathroom accessories and massage chairs. Oh, massage chairs.

If you’re looking forward to 2025 and looking to dig deeper into what’s to come in January, here’s a taste of what our team hopes to see at the show.

New video cards from AMD and NVIDIA

There is no doubt that 2025 will be an important year for PC gamers. NVIDIA is expected to release its long-awaited RTX 5000 video cards at CES, while AMD CEO Lisa Su has confirmed that we will see. the next generation RDNA 4 GPU early next year. Of the two companies, AMD could use an upgrade. His the last batch of Radeon 7000 cards they were mediocre performers, but lagged behind NVIDIA’s hardware when it came to ray tracing, and AMD’s FSR 3 upscaling couldn’t compete with NVIDIA’s AI-powered DLSS 3.

“In addition to the significant increase in gaming performance, RDNA 4 offers higher performance and increased AI capabilities,” AMD CEO Lisa Su said on the October earnings call.

Regarding new NVIDIA devices, rumors from the publisher One Raichu (through DigitalTrends) said that the RTX 5090 can be up to 70 percent faster than the RTX 4090. (That’s the GPU I originally he is described as having “unholy powers.”) also notes that some “high-end” cards can see 30 to 40 percent of the work. This gain may be enough to tempt wealthy RTX 4090 owners to upgrade, but RTX 4070 and 4080 owners may want to skip this generation. For NVIDIAs with RTX 3000 and early GPUs, next year could be a good time to upgrade. – Devindra Hardawar, Senior Journalist

AI PCs round 2

Last year, I predicted that AI PCs would dominate CES, and that turned out to be true. As 2024 progressed, we saw more powerful NPUs in chips from Intel, AMD and Qualcomm. Microsoft also doubled down on AI PC and its Copilot+ servicewhich led to the great attraction of smart design features and high specifications (such as having at least 16GB of RAM).

Expect similar trends heading into CES 2025, including more and more AI in every category of product imaginable. This year, in particular, PC manufacturers should prepare to take advantage Windows 10 support ends next year. Instead of just upgrading your old computer to Windows 11, the likes of Dell and HP would rather buy a new AI PC with a new OS pre-installed.

While 2024 was the year of endless AI PC hype, 2025 may turn out to be the year of reckoning. Microsoft’s long-delayed Recall service is slowly rolling out to many users, but it’s already showing security holes, such as. unable to scan social security numbers and credit cards from images. We’ve been there too detailed information and the ability to create images of Apple Intelligence. PC makers have been eager to talk about the potential of AI-powered products until now, but in 2025 they will have to prove they can do what they want. – DH

Headphones that follow Apple’s leadership in hearing health

I’m well aware that not all audio companies can make it clinical hearing tests and hearing aids in their programs. However, Apple’s recent update of the AirPods Pro 2 should encourage competitors to offer a different kind of earphones for their products. Jabra was probably willing to do this because GN’s parent company has a lot of hearing aids. Sadly, the company announced earlier this year they don’t make headphones anymore.

Samsung and Google may be able to integrate something like Apple’s AirPods, given both companies’ platforms. If they do, these announcements won’t happen at CES, as both companies tend to hold their own computer events throughout the year.

This leaves Sennheiser as the largest audio company to launch regular headphones and earphones at CES. Last year, he showed several new modelsincluding one for accurate heart rate during exercise. In addition, it already offers hearing aid with dedicated devices such as wireless technology Excellent Communication. These headphones are more than just regular headphones, so it would be nice to see Sennheiser bring something from the product to the flagship Momentum line of headphones. Perhaps a Momentum True Wireless 4 Pro or Plus is in the cards, but the current model is only nine months old.

Of course, there is plenty of room for other companies to innovate here, and there will be no shortage of new ears in Vegas next month. We also like to see a ton of Support equipment and technology are launched at CESfrom large accessible companies like OrCam and all kinds of sub-genres. I can only hope that this new technology has many audio tools in the range that many people will want to use. – Billy Steele, editor-in-chief

Automotive lighting goes to heaven

As the growth of electric vehicles approaches 10 percent off new models sold in the US, it’s easy to forget that electric vehicles aren’t the only form of transportation that’s transitioning to battery-powered transportation. Flying taxis have been a staple of CES for the past few years, with concept cars from big brands like Hyundai show under the show in Vegas.

In fact, these contraptions look like giant drones with cockpits bigger than anything the Jetsons have ever dreamed of. But it’s companies like Archer Aviation and Joby Aviation promising to launch eVTOL (electric takeoff and landing) services in 2025, the era of air taxis may have really landed this time. – Sam Rutherford, senior reporter

Additional features for voice chat

When it comes to great audio products, there are no new innovations year after year. Heck, Samsung’s biggest update last year was adding support for HDMI 2.1 to its higher form, which must have existed before. Companies have also been focusing on the wireless transition, whether it’s Dolby Atmos wireless or wireless transmission boxes. Audio enhancements are an area where companies can rise above the competition, with tools such as Sonos’ TV Audio Exchange and Bose’s Personal Surround Sound are good examples of this. An important part of almost every company can change is sound reinforcement, something that increases the sound or separates the spoken word from the background noise and the music to be heard better.

Sonos made a big leap in this regard Arc Ultraproviding two additional settings for what is called Volume Up. In the past, this was an all-or-nothing change, the way many companies handled their operations for this tool. Not only is the Sonos update a little more flexible, it’s also better, thanks in part to its new soundbar design. This is an obvious area where some companies can change.

LG and Samsung often announce new sound systems at CES, and there are many smaller companies that can start as well. I’d like to see both take the extras into the discussion and offer a few different ways to use them. LG has been using AI Sound Pro from its TVs since 2021 and Samsung offers something called Adaptive Sound for their home speakers. I hope they both change their looks, but I hope they also develop their abilities. – BS