[CES 2023] Despite the absence of some major players, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas remains an opportunity to discover the main technological innovations of the year. Small selection of the big announcements of the 2023 edition.
Since its creation in the late 1960s, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has continued to grow in size to become the unmissable global high-tech meeting place. The winter edition of this major international show, which is traditionally held in January in Las Vegas, the city of gambling and excess, has thus become over time the showcase where all the technologies of the year, the “tech” players are struggling to present their upcoming novelties in preview, whether they are electronic products, digital services or even futuristic concepts still in the prototype stage. Manufacturers, publishers, creators of start-ups, resellers, media and – sometimes – politicians rush there with great fanfare of communication so as not to miss the great train of innovation. An innovation that does not only concern computing and consumer electronics such as television, the CES now bringing together all kinds of fields – around forty in total – ranging from mobile telephony to artificial intelligence and augmented reality and/or virtual (AR and VR), video games, connected objects, health, sport, robotics, 3D printing, drones, security or transport, in particular electric vehicles – the CES having even become the largest auto show in the United States.
What are the dates for CES 2023?
The past two years have been quite complicated for CES due to the Covid pandemic. Thus, the 2021 edition was held entirely remotely, without any physical presence, a first in the history of the show. 2022 should have marked the big return of the show in standard version, but the dazzling progress of the Omicron variant changed the situation a few days before the opening, to the point that several major players such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Twitter and Lenovo gave up at the last minute to come physically, most of them contenting themselves with a “virtual” presence, remotely. Despite these disaffections, the organizers maintained the demonstration, but shortened its duration by one day.
Everything seems to be back to normal for the 2023 edition, since the show will be open to the public from Thursday January 5 to Sunday January 8, a period more in keeping with tradition – note that Tuesday January 3 and Wednesday January 4 are reserved for media, which allows journalists and other communication experts to cover the event without being bothered by the crowds of visitors. Admittedly, the big show will not be full this year: if the 2019 edition had been a great success, bringing together nearly 4,400 exhibitors from some 110 countries, this time around 3,100 exhibitors will have to be satisfied – representing all likewise 170 countries.
This time again, not all the big names in tech will be present, even virtually. This is the case of Apple, in particular, which prefers to make its announcements during its own events – the famous keynotes, dear to the Apple brand – but also of Intel, more curiously, which nevertheless plays on its native land. but who decided to do without CES this year. Absences which will not prevent the distribution of press releases in parallel.
Like any major trade fair, the CES is an opportunity for market players to unveil their new products and present their innovations. And despite the – sometimes surprising – absence of a few big names, most of the top tier players like AMD or Nvidia will be speaking at conferences. Some are reserved for a handpicked audience, and obviously present on site, but others will be broadcast online in parallel, and accessible to all audiences. This is the case of the Nvidia GeForce Beyond conference, which is being held this Tuesday, January 3 at 5 p.m. French time (UTC+1), which will be broadcast live in streaming on YouTube. The opportunity for the chameleon firm to present its new RTX 40XX GPUs for laptops, and to no doubt make other announcements that will undoubtedly interest gamers.
AMD will hold a major conference on Wednesday, January 4, as confirmed on Twitter by Lisa Su, the company’s emblematic CEO. Given the time difference, it will take place on January 5 at 3:30 a.m. in France…
What are the main innovations presented at CES 2023?
Although CES 2023 has not yet opened its doors to the public, several major players have already made announcements to the international media. As often, it was the Korean display giants who drew the first to impress, namely Samsung – especially with its Samsung Display division – and LG.
As for monitors, Samsung has presented new giant monitors of the extra wide type for computers. Its Odyssey range is thus enriched with several new curved models in XXL format. First, the Odyssey Neo G9, equipped with a 57-inch diagonal Mini Led panel, with a radius of curvature of 1000R, a definition of 7680 x 2160 pixels (ratio of 32:9), i.e. the equivalent of two UHD-4K screens side by side. Equipped with a DisplayPort 2.1 interface – an industry first that allows it to transfer data approximately twice as fast as conventional DisplayPort 1.4 –, it is also distinguished by its 240 Hz image refresh rate which makes a screen perfectly suited to gaming.
The other standout model, the Odyssey Oled G9, is a bit smaller with a diagonal of “only” 49 inches. but it benefits from an Oled panel which promises excellent image quality, in particular thanks to perfect blacks – without lit or backlit pixels. Less curved (1800R), it also offers a lower definition (5120 x 1440 pixels) but still in a 32:9 format. Above all, it promises a response rate of only 0.1 ms with a maximum frequency of 240 Hz, which again makes it a model well suited to video games, especially since it is compatible with adaptive synchronization technologies. AMD FreeSync Premium type. Note that it also acts as a real digital hub since it has, in addition to DisplayPort and HDMI 2.1, USB-C ports, including one delivering up to 65 W of power to charge devices.
However, more than these giant monitors, certainly impressive but not revolutionary, what especially struck the spirits, it is the Flex Hybrid, a hybrid screen, flexible and stretchable presented by Samsung Display. no question of marketable model for the moment, because it is simply a demonstration prototype intended to expose an innovative concept. In this case, the Flex Hybrid uses a flexible panel with Oled technology which can go from 10.5 inches in 4:3 ratio to a diagonal of 12.4 inches in 16:10 ratio once unrolled and stretched to its maximum. . Samsung has remained very discreet about the other technical characteristics, and we do not yet know the nature of the products that will be able to take advantage of this type of screen, but we can imagine it on laptops and foldable and extendable tablets as well as on in-vehicle devices.
