Under the influence of the epidemic, major traditional offline exhibitions have suffered a certain impact. As one of the world's three major consumer electronics exhibitions, this year's CES is also full of twists and turns: first a number of large manufacturers announced that they would withdraw from offline exhibitions and only participate in online exhibitions, and then announced that the exhibition period was shortened because of the unoppositive epidemic situation.
Despite this, this year's CES has released a lot of eye-catching black technology, both offline and online.
Double British battle AMD, your computer should be upgraded again?
Although Intel, Nvidia and AMD, the three "mainstays" in the field of PC hardware, have announced that they will not participate in CES this year, their performance in the online exhibition is still a bellwether for the PC industry this year.
Therefore, the online conference of these three manufacturers, which is only a few hours apart, has attracted the attention of many people.
▲ Can AMD still be yes this year?
The first to arrive is the amd conference that has been popular in the past two years. At this year's CES, AMD CEO Dr. Zifeng Su brought us a new mobile version of the Ryzen 6000 series processor.
The Ryzen 6000 series processor will use TSMC's 6nm process, which makes its energy consumption ratio a certain improvement. According to the data currently released by AMD, devices equipped with this CPU may get up to 24 hours of battery life, which even has the ability to compete with Apple's M1 series.
Of course, the current test results are likely to be measured on the validator, and should be limited to thin and light copies, but it is already very powerful.
The Ryzen 6000 Series will feature the Zen 3+ architecture at clock frequencies up to 5GHz, which is about 30% faster than the Ryzen 5000 Series.
In addition, in the integrated GPU part, the Ryzen 6000 series has also upgraded the architecture to RDNA 2, which will have up to 12 computing cores, and will also be the industry's first integrated GPU to support built-in optical tracking.
In addition, the Ryzen™ 6000 series provides support for next-generation data transmission technologies such as USB 4, PCIe 4.0, Wi-Fi 6E, and microsoft's Pluton security processor.
Under these upgrades, it is natural that the performance of the Ryzen 6000 series has been greatly improved.
In addition, AMD also announced the upgraded CPU of the mobile Ryzen™ 5000 series and a desktop "world's fastest game processor": R7-5800X 3D at the press conference.
Of course, for Xiao Hei, these are not the most important news. The really big news from AMD's launch came from AMD's development plan for 2022: the new Zen 4 architecture is coming, and it is expected to be installed on the Ryzen 7000 series in the second half of this year. In addition, the Ryzen™ 7000 series also marks AMD's official entry into the 5nm process era.
It seems that AMD is no longer satisfied with direct competition with Intel and has begun to officially treat Apple's M1 as a formal competitor.
AMD was followed by Intel's launch.
Compared with AMD, which can produce chips through TSMC's advanced process, Intel, which insists on research and development and production, has been trapped in 14nm for several years, and finally came up with the first generation of 12th-generation Core based on Intel 7 process technology (equivalent to 10nm). However, Intel's FinFET transistor-optimized Intel 7 will have a 10% to 15% performance improvement compared to the previous superFin.
In addition, Intel has not put any big moves, nothing more than the "how to do friends" that set, of course, the 12th generation Core is also a bit of a look.
As for NVIDIA, which has repeatedly released big news in the past two years, the new technologies and new products released can completely overshadow the limelight of the first two.
Although Lao Huang himself did not appear, the release of the desktop RTX 3050 graphics card can undoubtedly make people shine: at a reasonable price, the release of this entry-level graphics card will undoubtedly make more people feel the charm of better and smoother picture quality performance.
What's even more satisfying is that this desktop entry-level graphics card also supports ray tracing, which is still very friendly to the average player, entry-level video or 3D maker.
The premise is that you can buy it at the original price.
In addition, at CES 2022, NVIDIA also updated its NVIDIA Studio platform, and the drawing software NVIDIA Canvas, and launched a new video enhancement software: Video Enhance AI.
As shown in the figure above, this is a video quality improvement through AI algorithms to achieve the effect of increasing video resolution.
However, it is unclear when the software will be available for download.
In addition, Nvidia Metaverse Framework Omniverse has also been officially released, plus more notebooks equipped with new mobile RTX graphics cards, intelligent driving technology, and "One More Thing": the strongest desktop graphics card in the 30 series that will be released in the future: RTX 3090 Ti.
Regarding this graphics card, there is very little known news at present, and it seems that it will be known until it is officially released.
New technologies in the field of display and VR are piled up, and everyone has "eye blessing"!
If you want to ask about the hot topics of this year's CES, Xiao Hei feels that it is still necessary to count the "meta-universe" that has been hotly discussed in the past two years. As the current "supporting facility" of the metaverse, VR equipment also occupies an important position at CES this year.
First of all, as a suo fan, Xiao Black still noticed the "small surprise" brought to us by Sony, and adapted to the next-generation VR headset of playStation 5: PlayStation VR 2 set off a "corner of the hijab".
Support for 4K HDR video, "fixation rendering technology" that simulates human eye vision, and increased user immersion by extending the field of view enhance the player's visual experience.
Of course, Sony itself did not mention the concept of the metaverse, but everyone will associate the launch of this product with it.
Here Xiao Hei would like to interject, Sony also announced the prototype of the SUV model Vision-S 02 at the press conference.
▲ This interior design is not eye-catching
Apple, Sony, Xiaomi, and Huawei have successively entered the field of car manufacturing, and the electric vehicle market really has a good drama to watch.
In addition to Sony, Panasonic's subsidiary Shiftall also released a VR headset during CES: MeganeX. This headset weighs less than 250 grams, which is only slightly heavier than an iPhone 13 Pro Max, and can be said to be a fairly light VR device.
To be honest, the appearance of this VR device is really not very good-looking, but it can't stand the Lightning OLED display that supports 5.2K, 10-bit HDR, and 120Hz refresh rate, and it can be imagined that it can still get the approval of some users.
In addition, MeganeX is also compatible with SteamVR, which gives many players a whole new option.
At the same time, Shiftall's HaritoraX full-body tracking system has also been opened for booking in the United States.
In addition to the MeganeX, Panasonic expects to release two other VR devices during CES 2022.
▲ AR eyes released by TCL
Not only VR equipment is conservatively concerned this year, various AR equipment is also the focus of this exhibition, and the AR eye released by TCL in the above picture is one of them.
Featuring MicroLED display technology, these AR glasses are named NXTWEAR Air, weigh only 75 grams, and can also be replaced according to personal preferences.
In addition, the virtual screen of the car's windshield jointly created by EyeLights and AGC has also enriched the category of AR devices.
As for conventional display devices, LG will release a series of new OLED products at CES 2022, including OLED notebook folding screen, Fat House Happy Chair Media Chair, indoor fitness equipment LG Virtual Ride and a series of transparent screens.
▲ Indoor fitness equipment Virtual Ride
Samsung will release the first QD-OLED TV at CES, a bunch of monitors for showing muscle. Of course, the current LG and Samsung conference has not yet opened, but it is enough to attract attention.
Technology changes lives, technology guides the future
In addition to the common product categories of consumers, many new technologies and new products that can promote the development of the market will be released at CES every year.
First and foremost this year, Valeo has released a series of intelligent transportation technologies.
Among them, the one that can most attract Xiao Hei's attention is his third-generation scanning lidar.
The lidar will be able to detect objects up to 200 meters away that are difficult to observe in the current way of observation, and even have the ability to calculate braking distances based on the density of raindrops, which will play a key role in the advancement of driver assistance systems.
In addition, Valeo is also releasing a near-field lidar at CES 2022. This lidar can show the scene in the full field of view around the vehicle, completely eliminating the blind spot of the vehicle's close field of vision. Maybe this radar is a friendly product for some of the hard workers who are reversing?
In addition to the VR/AR equipment mentioned by the above small black, the car is destined to be one of the focuses of this year's CES, and snapdragon naturally has to plug in a foot.
In order to meet the advent of the era of smart cars, Snapdragon has prepared a complete set of intelligent car supporting platforms, including digital chassis, driver assistance systems, car connection services and car cloud services.
Simply put, Snapdragon has built all the non-hardware products in the car-making process - just waiting for the car manufacturers to use the ready-made ones.
ZF's on-board computing platform and sensor kit, Serllantis' emergency vehicle alert system, Mobileye's three automotive chips, and Chrysler's first Airflow concept are all eye-catching products.
▲ Only Hyundai is a "traitor"
Only modern cars, based on the automotive industry, have developed backwards and begun to show off robots and their PnD modules.
In general, although this year's CES did not shock the industry's big news, the products released by major manufacturers are still quite sincere.
In addition to these products, the annual CES also exhibits some interesting gadgets, such as L'Oréal's Coloronic smart hair coloring tool. Limited by space limitations, Xiao Black is not introduced to small partners here, and interested partners can go to the official website of CES 2022 to see enough.
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