Are you able to kick off the brand new 12 months with a tsunami of recent expertise? I hope so, as a result of CES 2026 will opens its doorways on January 6, the place a number of the greatest names within the client tech and automotive worlds will grace the myriad of conference halls unfold throughout Las Vegas.
CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is the world’s greatest client expertise present, and you’ll anticipate to see all method of tech on show, from TVs, audio system and good residence home equipment, to telephones, tablets and wearables, during to drones, robots, automobiles and extra.
While nearly each nook of client expertise shall be represented at CES 2026, there shall be a standard thread operating by means of most of the cubicles, press conferences and behind-closed-doors conferences this 12 months – AI.
We’ll convey you the most recent information and perception on the largest bulletins and hottest merchandise from the present, however for now right here’s what it’s essential know within the run-up to the occasion.
What is CES?
As I’ve talked about, that is the world’s greatest client expertise present, which takes over town of Las Vegas for just about a complete week. While the 2026 installment’s official dates are January 6-9, the truth is the present really begins a few days earlier than.
You can anticipate information and bulletins to start out touchdown from Sunday, January 4, with Monday, January 5 the official press day, the place much more shall be revealed.
I’ve been lucky sufficient to attend CES many occasions over time, and whereas a number of the larger names in tech have lowered their presence on the present, it appears to maintain increasing. Not solely does it take over the large halls of the LVCC (the Las Vegas Convention Center), you’ll additionally discover CES at The Sands and Mandalay Bay conference facilities as nicely. Then there are occasions, conferences and briefings occurring throughout the quite a few mega-hotels on the strip too.
In quick, there’s an terrible lot of tech on present, and it’s the right strategy to setup the 12 months forward. Let’s check out what we are able to anticipate.
Computing
AMD CEO, Lisa Su is heading the CES opening keynote AMD
CES 2026 is wanting set to be a bumper 12 months for computing. Intel has already confirmed it would introduce its Panther Lake CPUs on the present, whereas AMD’s CEO, Lisa Su, is headlining the present’s opening keynote and studies counsel the agency might launch the Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU. Oh, and Nvidia additionally has a press convention deliberate, with rumors of a brand new RTX 50 “Super” Series announcement – in order that’s the massive three all represented.
Then there’s computing {hardware}, with giants together with Asus, Lenovo, Razer and extra all probably introducing new equipment for us to take a look at – together with laptops sporting Qualcomm’s lately introduced Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Premium chips.
It’s the latter machines, with Qualcomm’s new chipsets in, which I’m most interested by. I at present use a Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 with the current-gen Snapdragon X Elite chip and I’ve been completely impressed with it in relation to battery life. It makes it a super work machine, and I’m eager to see how the second era can enhance on issues.
My colleague Rami has taken a better have a look at what to anticipate from Lenovo and Razer at CES 2026, and unsurprisingly AI is about to be the frequent theme.
So there shall be loads of chatter round CPUs, GPUs, and AI, and possibly laptops and desktops too – nearly sufficient to fill a whole present, however we’re simply beginning to scratch the floor of what CES 2026 should supply.
You need extra? Don’t you are concerned, there’s extra.
TVs
The Hisense stand at CES 2025. Hisense / Hisense
While computing corporations are all the time nicely represented at CES, the TV world has a stronger legacy on the present, and we anticipate the main gamers to all have important presence. We’re speaking LG, Samsung and Sony, together with Hisense and TCL.
Samsung is internet hosting its The First Look occasion on January 4, which shall be proven merchandise from its TV, residence home equipment and cellular divisions, the place we might see some new OLED TVs among the many line-up.
Meanwhile, Sony is tipped to launch a brand new ‘True RGB’ – a time period it trademarked lately, and will nicely level to a brand new mini-LED TV. LG may also be exhibiting off numerous merchandise, together with its LG Signature OLED T – the world’s first clear 4K OLED TV – which was introduced a few months in the past. We might additionally see the arrival of the C6 and G6 OLEDs.
Our contributor Tom Bedford goes into element on LG’s CES 2026 presence, speaking by means of what we anticipate from it by way of TVs, but in addition different merchandise reminiscent of good residence units and home equipment.
We additionally heard about Dolby Vision 2 at IFA 2025, though on the time particulars had been extraordinarily restricted and only one Hisense TV supported the show tech. We might get extra data, and see extra TVs with it, at CES.
I walked the halls at IFA 2025 in Berlin, Germany again in September, and stared an terrible lot of TVs, from OLED to mini-LED to microLED and extra, and the standard that show tech is now at is sort of astounding. I’m wanting ahead to laying eyes on much more at CES.
Mobile
Samsung
CES sometimes isn’t an enormous present for smartphone and pill bulletins, the business has its personal flagship occasion with MWC in Barcelona, Spain (at first of March in 2026) the place we’ll see extra cellular targeted bulletins.
However, the Las Vegas, Nevada present gained’t be devoid of the units many people have on our particular person just about 24/7.
Samsung lately launched the Galaxy Z Trifold – a elaborate dual-hinged foldable telephone, the primary of its kind to make it to the US within the coming months.
It was initially proven off in Samsung’s residence market of South Korea, nevertheless CES 2026 gives the agency a superb platform to indicate it off Stateside for the primary time.
On prime of that, there’s an opportunity we get a Samsung Galaxy S26 teaser too, as its subsequent flagship telephone sequence is predicted to reach later in January at its personal standalone occasion.
It gained’t simply be Samsung making cellular noise, as Lenovo-owned Motorola might have some new bulletins, whereas we’ll be maintaining a tally of the likes of TCL and Sony.
Smart Home
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Walking the flooring at IFA 2025 and it felt like I used to be surrounded. At nearly each flip there was some form of robotic vacuum, mop, garden mower or pool cleaner.
If these bots had been in a position to arrange themselves collectively, there may need been some ugly scenes at Messe Berlin. Thankfully although, a minimum of for now, these family chore bots don’t seem to have sentience, however what they can do is sort of unimaginable.
From climbing stairs to robotic arms to gather odd socks off the ground, these good residence units will probably have a powerful presence at CES 2026.
Automotive
Honda
An attention-grabbing development I’ve witnessed in newer years at CES is the proliferation of automotive manufacturers on the present. When I began going to CES within the early 2010s, there was actually not a lot in the best way of auto presence on the present.
Fast ahead to at this time although and we’re seeing main automobile manufacturers have sizable cubicles. BMW tends to take over a piece of on of the conference middle parking heaps, whereas non-traditional auto manufacturers reminiscent of Sony and Xiaomi are additionally getting in on the motion.
While my colleague Stephen Edelstein says he’s not anticipating large auto information at CES 2026, it would nonetheless be an essential present for the business “with an emphasis on commercialization alongside the flashy bulletins.
“That means updates on getting new EVs into production, as companies are now working at the less-exciting task of turning their headline-generating announcements from previous years into real products.”
Let’s not neglect the strange
We can even depend on CES to supply some wacky moments too. From weird robots, unusual automobiles and merchandise you may need by no means contemplating current in one million years, the present is a melting pot for just about something folks can give you.
Many of those surprises are usually tucked away within the corners of obscure halls, and I’ve occurred upon some previously purely by probability. These merchandise are usually those no one predicted, so hold your eyes peeled all through CES week to see what surprises are thrown our approach.
And after all, AI
AI would be the trending matter all through just about every part at CES 2026. It shall be not possible to keep away from, as corporations proceed to push the expertise – in its many, many types – onto shoppers as essential characteristic.
A time period we’ll probably hear extra of at CES 2026 is “Agentic AI”. We are transferring previous chatbots that merely reply questions and may have a dialog with you.
We expect to see units that don’t simply plan a visit, however ebook the flights and reserve the tables with action-oriented AI assistants.
And we might see extra of this processing going down on-device, protecting your information personal and the flexibility for the AI to work with out an web connection, lowering the reliance on the cloud.