The biggest tech show of the year kicks off next week, as some of the industry’s top players show up to Las Vegas for CES 2026. We’ll be there to see all the new product demos we can and to bring you the most exciting news from the show. Follow our coverage for a preview of all the new tech these companies are planning to launch in 2026.
Expect to see the usual suspects: laptops, smart home gadgets, and TVs, and a whole lot more wearables and health tech. We’re anticipating seeing more products with AI integration. Also, robots. Perhaps, humanoids even.
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CES 2026 officially starts on Tuesday, January 6th, but stay tuned for news and announcements starting Sunday ahead of the show floor opening, when there are also lots of press conferences. Here are the major beats we’re expecting to see at the show.
Laptops
Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake chip was preannounced in October. Image: Intel
Laptops are always big at CES, with most major companies — save for Apple — announcing new models. They range from iterative spec bumps to whole new designs. Plus, there’s always the occasional concept that may or may never come out.
CES 2026 should bring new laptops featuring three new chips: Intel’s Panther Lake, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2, and AMD’s rumored “Gorgon Point” processors. Intel and Qualcomm are hyping up the efficiency of their new chips while simultaneously emphasizing graphics power — which always sounds too good to be true and often is. But battery life ranges from good to excellent among current offerings, and AMD proved with Strix Halo that integrated graphics could be downright impressive. I’m intrigued to see how things progress from here, especially in a year that doesn’t have new Nvidia GPUs. (But then again, Nvidia may soon compete in a different way.)
Regardless of how the latest chip showdown shakes out, I hope we see more unique ideas in laptop form factors. Give me more rollables, dual-screens, foldables, or any other clever uses of screen real estate that can be dreamed up. But like my favorite laptop from the last CES, let’s hope the radical stuff makes it past the concept stage.
- Antonio G. Di Benedetto
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