A total of more than 1,900 companies from all over the world participated in this network exhibition, including Intel, Microsoft, Nvidia, TCL and other giant companies and start-ups.

Editor’s note: This article from the news interface, author: Peng new.

The 2021 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas will open online on the 11th. This is the first time that CES has been held in the form of virtual network in more than 50 years.

Affected by the new crown epidemic, this year’s CES has changed its format. According to the organizer, the American Consumer Technology Association, more than 1,900 companies from all over the world participated in this online exhibition, including Intel, Microsoft, Nvidia, TCL and other giant companies and Startup company.

The themes of CES 2021 are still focused on 5G, autonomous vehicles, smart medical care, smart cities, artificial intelligence, etc. Officially, there are more than 1,000 exhibitors and more than 100 forums, and it is expected to attract 150,000 online participants.

During the period, AMD CEO Su Zifeng, General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra, Verizon Chairman and CEO Hans Westberg and others will give keynote speeches, looking forward to technology trends and releasing a new generation Technology application.

Karen Cupka, vice chairman of the Consumer Technology Association of America, said that CES was held online for the first time this year, bringing the global science and technology community together in a safe and meaningful way. A platform for understanding the latest technological developments.

As one of the world’s largest consumer technology industry events, CES, which started in 1967, has always been the highlight of the new year in the field of technology. The scope of the exhibition covers almost the entire consumer electronics field and is regarded as the “vane” of international consumer electronics. Every year the exhibition attracts many companies from all over the world to participate. Last year, CES exhibited about 4,500 companies from more than 160 countries and regions. Previously, officials said that CES is still planned to be held offline in 2022.

Intel: Autonomous driving and PC are the key points

As a semiconductor giant, Intel demonstrated its layout in the field of autonomous driving and PC at CES.

Market research institutions IDC and Gartner have recently released reports showing that 2020 is the best period for the PC market in recent years. IDC said that in 2020, the global PC market shipments increased by 13.1% year-on-year, with home office, online learning, and the recovery of consumer demand becoming the main driving factors.

The growth of the PC market has brought confidence to Intel. Intel CEO Si Ruibo said in an interview with the media that now is a good time to enter the (semiconductor industry). The digitization of everything seems to be accelerating and computing is everywhere. Not only our PCs and servers, everything seems to require high-performance computing. “The importance of PC is self-evident, so the current market is very beneficial for the entire industry.”

This CES Intel released a total of more than 50 processor products, including 27 brand-new processors designed for the commercial sector, 6 processors for the education sector, 12 high-performance mobile processors and 8 high-performance mobile processors. The performance desktop processor is expected to be used on more than 500 PCs for the commercial, education, mobile and gaming markets.

It is worth noting that Intel also announced its next-generation processor code-named “Alder Lake” later this year, using a 10nm SuperFin manufacturing process. Intel called it “a major breakthrough in x86 architecture” because it will The combination of performance and high-efficiency cores are integrated into one product, becoming the most power-scalable chip. The market expects Intel to compete fiercely with AMD in the high-end market.

Autonomous driving is an important part of Intel’s new track. At CES, Intel disclosed the latest developments of its autonomous driving division Mobileye:

  • In terms of self-driving car testing, Mobileye said that the new test car is expected to be on the roads of Detroit, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Paris in early 2021. At the same time, it will be extended to New York after regulatory approval is passed.

  • Based on the accumulation in the field of silicon photonics, Intel has built a set of Lidar System Integrated Chip (SoC) for autonomous driving cars for Mobileye, which will be put into use in 2025.

  • Mobileye also revealed that cars using its existing technology have drawn nearly 1 billion kilometers of high-precision maps around the world, and the mileage of high-precision maps drawn daily exceeds 8 million kilometers.

  • Mobileye plans to develop a software-defined radar specifically for autonomous vehicles.

Mobileye, which Intel acquired for $15 billion in 2017, has become Intel’s fastest growing business unit. Mobileye is known for its ADAS technology solutions. Its sales in 2019 are close to one billion U.S. dollars, and its revenue in the first quarter of 2020 also increased by 22% year-on-year to 254 million U.S. dollars.

Sony pays attention to content creation and releases a new drone AirPeak

Compared to the traditional viewThe consumer electronics company in mind, Sony at CES this time is more like a content production company, with a lot of products focusing on content production and production.

Sony President and CEO Kenichiro Yoshida and other executives released the latest technology through online video. For example, by fusing a stereoscopic image of a singer with a virtual space, it is possible to provide a lively video similar to an actual concert. In the United States, Sony has collaborated with telecom operator Verizon to produce content for American singer Madison Bill and release it for PlayStation VR and mobile products.

The newly released PS5 game console will have more games in the future. Jim Lane, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Games, showed in a promotional clip, the new work of “Ricky and Clank”, “Horizon: Western Forbidden Domain” “New games including “Tokyo Ghost Line” will be released this year.

In order to help content creation, Sony will launch the drone AirPeak in the spring of 2021. This drone can be equipped with Sony’s Alpha series of full-frame mirrorless cameras for the production of high-definition images. Yoshida emphasized that “video creators can explore new realms of image performance.”

Yoshida Kenichiro also announced that it is conducting road driving verification tests on the VISION-S electric concept car. According to his introduction, the verification experiment started in Austria in December 2020. Use the equipped sensors to grasp the situation inside and outside the car and assist in automatic driving. Sony will continue to experiment repeatedly in the future, and strive to develop the automotive sensor market.

Microsoft’s new Surface is aimed at the business market, and cloud services support the CES exhibition

Microsoft usually does not have a product launch at CES, but this year there was an “accident”. The company launched the Surface Pro 7 “Business Enhanced Edition”, named Surface Pro 7+.

Compared with the standard version, Surface Pro 7+ has been improved in some small places. The first is that its solid-state hard drive has been changed to a design that can be easily removed. This is mainly to facilitate the management of confidential information by enterprises and also allow IT to work.Easier. By changing to a thinner panel, the Surface Pro 7+ has room to put a larger battery, making it the most powerful member of the Surface family. Surface Pro 7+ also has specific models that can be equipped with LTE mobile data to meet users’ needs for networking at any time.

In fact, to make this CES online a reality, Microsoft is also playing an important role behind it. The organizer, the Consumer Technology Association of America, said that Microsoft’s team will provide cloud services, video production and other related support for this year’s CES.

New on NVIDIA Mobile GPU

According to the news on Nvidia’s official website, at 1:00 a.m. Beijing time on January 13, Nvidia will hold a special live event “GEFORCE RTX: GAME ON” to showcase the latest innovations in the field of games and graphics cards.

In September last year, Nvidia’s newly launched RTX30 series graphics cards were successful, but they were faced with the dilemma of being out of stock. With the skyrocketing bitcoin price and the growing demand for home entertainment, Nvidia’s graphics cards were in short supply and continued to the present.

CES is usually the window for Nvidia to display its mobile products. With Intel’s release of a new generation of mobile processors, mobile GPUs are also gaining momentum, and mainstream PC manufacturers will also focus on releasing notebook products equipped with new generation CPUs and GPUs.

In addition, according to foreign media Igorslab, Nvidia’s RTX 3060 12GB will be released at CES and will be available soon. The new flagship RTX 3080Ti with 20GB will be postponed to be released in February. The previously released RTX 3050Ti will be released as RTX 3060 6GB.

Wi-Fi 6E is here, which is expected to solve the problem of home network congestion

The increasingly popular WiFi 6 technology is updated to WiFi 6E, which is expected to solve our biggest troubles when working at home.

The Wi-Fi Alliance announced the opening of Wi-Fi 6E device certification last week, targeting devices that support 6GHz networks. As it is catching up with CES 2021, this certification will create conditions for the release of many new routers and mobile devices this year.

The biggest change in Wi-Fi 6E is the addition of the 6GHz frequency band, which adds 1200MHz bandwidth to the Wi-Fi 6 network. Its capacity is more than twice the total capacity of the 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequency bands. It can carry up to 7 Overlap 160MHz channels.

Last year, whether it was because of the epidemic working at home or being unable to go out for entertainment because of the epidemic, the demand for the Internet was increasing. However, when faced with troubles, the surge of wireless networking equipment made the originalThe barely available 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands are more congested.

Network equipment company NETGEAR has spotted this market and brought the first WiFi 6E specification router Nighthawk RAXE500. In addition to the 2.4Ghz and 5GHz frequency bands, it also adds a 6GHz frequency band to reduce interference and competition. Suitable for new applications such as 8K streaming and wireless VR. Sandeep Harpalani, vice president of NETGEAR Product Management, said that the new product solves the problem of network congestion caused by the large number of devices in today’s homes.

However, the popularity of Wi-Fi 6E may not be too fast. In addition to legal restrictions, the progress of the release of the 6GHz band in various countries is not consistent, and the current products supporting WiFi 6E are still quite rare.

Technological life under the epidemic

Love is a topic that cannot be avoided in the past year, and it has also increased people’s attention to smart medical and smart health equipment. Smart monitoring, wearable devices, and smart service robots that are closely related to this will continue to become special hot spots this year. A variety of products including smart air purifiers, ultraviolet disinfection products, smart bracelets, and smart watch products will be unveiled at CES 2021.

BioIntelliSense’s BioButton has gained attention with its innovative features. BioButton is a coin-sized disposable medical wearable device for continuous monitoring of temperature, heart rate and respiratory rate at rest, and has a positioning function to detect adverse vital signs trends as early as possible. It can also warn public health authorities of potential epidemic risks.

In the entry epidemic prevention management plan implemented in the Cayman Islands last September, the use of BioButton to track the physiological information of inbound passengers helped shorten the isolation period to 5 days.

The Petit Qoobo exhibited by the Japanese company Yukai Engineering at this year’s CES is used to comfort and relieve people’s anxiety. Its shape is a round ball with a swaying tail underneath, which is reminiscent of weak and cute. Little creature.

Petit Qoobo has a hair touch similar to that of a real animal. When being touched, the built-in smart sensor can make different responses to the owner’s stroke or flapping, and Petit can also interact with the owner through voice , As if you are talking to a real cat, it will shake its furry tail in response to you.

Petit Qoobo is suitable for elderly people in nursing homes, as well as people who are allergic to pets or cannot keep pets because of apartment rules, but want to get a soft and loving hug.