this video is about the biggest trends at ces 2019 but before we jump into that
we've got to cover one big announcement that we haven't actually gotten to yet
AMD held their press conference yesterday
AMD held their press conference yesterday and after dilly dallying
around with some stuff about second gen ryzen mobile processors AMD powered
chromebooks and an appearance by xbox's phil spencer to talk about the power of
friendship truly fantastic now i have to say guys
phil is a legend in the gaming industry is phil a legend
AMD finally announced their new high-end flagship graphics card the Radeon 7 i
guess because it's vega 2 so it's a v and then two
eyes it's roman numerals it's the first desktop GPU built on a 7 nanometer
process with 60 compute units 16 gigabytes of high bandwidth memory and
AMD claims it's around 30 percent more powerful than the rx vega 64 in content
creation and gaming so according to dr
lisa sue that means it's on par with or better than NVIDIA's rtx 2080 especially
using vulcan the incredibly popular
graphics API that was sarcasm but i'm not the only
one sassing the card when asked about what he thinks about the Radeon 7 NVIDIA
ceo jensen huang told gizmodo it look it
looks dumb it looks lousy ah
that's dumb okay what he actually said was the launch was underwhelming and it
lacks ray tracing in dlss and that in real benchmarks the rtx 2080 will crush
it when asked to respond to jensen lisa took the high ground saying jensen
hasn't actually seen the card and that she's not going to go tit for tat with
insults i mean she is a doctor she
doesn't walk around wearing leather jackets looking for a bar fight now
Radeon 7 is going to launch in february for 6.99 the same price as the rtx 2080.
so let's hope it is actually competitive all right so with that out of the way
let's talk about the trends this year at ces the show might make you think of
laptops and phones and cameras but one of the biggest trends this year was
actually cars flying cars walking cars
self-driving cars even beyond the major players like waymo uber and tesla almost
every major tech company now has some sort of stake in autonomous driving
NVIDIA and mercedes have partnered to create a computer that defines the
future of autonomous vehicles while microsoft is helping lg work on ai for
its self-driving and infotainment systems for cars toyota talked about
their fully autonomous chauffeur technology but said they're focusing on
their semi-autonomous guardian system which will allow a car to take control
from its driver in order to avoid accidents which
strangely sounds kind of terrifying
if only because i either want to just accept that the car is driving or i'm
driving who's driving who's unforced in other car news bose
announced it's bringing active noise cancelling from headphones to cars bell
showed off the prototype for their nexus air taxi hyundai teased their work on
the cradle walking car and walmart said they'll be testing self-driving grocery
delivery in arizona those poor arizona residents when the
robot car revolution happens they'll be on the front lines the next big trend
we're talking about is digital assistance yep every product at this
freaking show and its dog now has alexa bixby or google assistant baked in and
that is only set to increase with google assistant connect the company's new
system for easily adding support to devices as simple as an e-ink display or
a single button google assistant can be found in the nude lenovo smart clock
sort of an echo spot type device dishes hopper tv receivers and even the anchor
rowev bolt a car charger
really google assistant itself also got some new features in addition to being
added to maps so now you can tell your usb car charger to check into your
flight and it will do it it doesn't care as we talked about in an
earlier episode samsung added bixby to basically every product they make but
alexa is showing up in more and more places as well lenovo announced the
smart tab an Android tablet that essentially turns into an echo show when
plugged into a speaker dock alexa also made her way into a bike
called the seebik e legend and gaming peripherals from razer and
thermaltake alexa pawn some noobs for me now i can't tell
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well i guess it's time for quick bits now another huge trend this year has
been robots whether they be somewhat useful models like the butler type
ubtech walker or the food delivery type like the segway lumo or robots that
aren't intended for any use at all like the love hot a confusingly cute baby pet
thing in fact the robot's maker groovex seems to intentionally show that the
lavat is clumsy and inept but it's cute
dennis loves them yeah yeah i do i know
there were some cool robots the misty two is meant more as a platform for
programming than a fully formed product and the temi can follow you around
performing digital actions from voice commands but
i mean at the end of the day it's a tablet on wheels so these bots are cool
but we're still waiting for c-3po
that sounds like an oscar-nominated film hey you like tvs and or large monitors
the size of tvs well there were lots lg
and samsung both showed off enormous 8k OLED displays while panasonic debuted
the world's first OLED 4k tv with dolby
vision HDR 10 plus and hlg for super
wide dynamic range there are huge screens everywhere at the show including
lg's giant OLED falls display that briefly made me believe i was barreling
through the void of space but giant monitors also showed up with alienware's
55-inch OLED gaming tv which Linus took a look at and the hp omen imperium
65-inch monitor speaking of gaming there were a lot of treats this year for pc
gamers NVIDIA launched the mobile versions of their rtx graphics cards
which can now be found in basically every new gaming laptop announced and we
got the debut of the world's first 240 hertz laptops in the hp omen 15 ASUS
strix scar 2 and the alienware m15 and
that last one will also have a 4k OLED version alienware also showed off their
area 51m gaming laptop which can have a number of components swapped out and
replaced including the CPU and GPU if
you want to do that razer had a particularly interesting reveal in their
hypersense system which adds haptic feedback to the keyboard mouse headset
and even your chair for a sort of haptic 3d experience also of course we got the
launch of the rtx 2060 and the Radeon 7 but we already talked about that
and last but not least 5g that ethereal
abstract concept was as much of a buzzword as ever and
not much else it seems like everyone really wants to get to 5g like now
verizon launched a very limited network in a few u.s cities that requires a hot
spot to use while at t just skipped that whole thing and just started claiming 4g
was 5g because why not what's the difference samsung had a 5g smartphone
in a case at their booth that didn't do anything
qualcomm and Intel probably had the most convincing demos using 5g to stream
video between devices but it's hard to get hyped about something that has so
much hype around it and has yet to truly
make it into the real world but hopefully it will so that's some of
the trends this year at ces guys thanks for watching but this video is over
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