The Consumer Electronics Show has officially begun in Las Vegas and will be bringing you all the highlights
from right here in our regular studio, where it's safe and clean and not a desert.
I hate sand. The Wi-Fi Alliance announced that they have officially
confirmed the Wi-Fi 7 standard and they've already started to certify devices
to ensure they work together. Unlike me and Selena, that was never gonna last.
The new standard will have twice the channel bandwidth of Wi-Fi 5, 6 and 6e,
making it better for, surprise, surprise, high bandwidth streaming.
The Alliance listed several use cases that will benefit from the improvements
of the new standard like hybrid work, mixed reality,
and real thing they wrote that totally isn't boomer-coded
electronic gaming. One of the biggest improvements introduced by Wi-Fi 7
is multi-link operation. Instead of connecting your device
to just the 2.4 gigahertz band or just the 5 gigahertz or 6 gigahertz band,
you can essentially connect to two or all three of them simultaneously.
The connection will then default to whatever band as fast as.
This should also reduce latency since having three bands available at the same time
should reduce the queue on each of them. If that sounds exciting, you don't have to wait for Wi-Fi 7 devices.
Qualcomm, for example, has announced several designs that use the standard and say their Fast Connect 7800 module
already found in their Snapdragon 8, Gen 2, and three chips are certified.
Technically, Wi-Fi 7 routers came out months ago too.
They just aren't certified. Unlike Selena, that's actually how we met,
but I broke out. We're happier for it. AMD has officially announced the RX 7600 XT,
the first 16 Gigabyte VRAM card under $500 this generation.
That's important because 16 gigabytes is the minimum memory requirement
for generative AI applications like stable diffusion. And that means for just $329,
the MSRP of the 7600 XT, you can make an artist cry.
Or at least you can once the card launches on the 24th of this month.
Speaking of cards we already knew existed, but are now officially announced,
NVIDIA was so excited to unveil the new 40 series super cards at CES,
they only talked about AI for like 20 minutes first. Team Green confirmed the rumored prices we discussed last week
and revealed release dates. The 4070 Super arrives January 17th for $600,
followed by the 4070 Ti Super on the 24th for $800.
The 4080 Super launches at the end of the month for a thousand bucks, $200 less than the 4080 non-super.
NVIDIA took a lot of pride in comparing the cards to the previous generation.
According to the company, when using DLSS3,
the 4080 Super is two times faster than a 3080 Ti.
The 4070 Ti Super is 2.5 times faster than a 3070 Ti
and the 4070 Super is faster than a 3090.
That sounds very cool, NVIDIA. You know what sounds cooler though?
Numbers. AMD also unveiled their new 8,000 GPU lineup
during their CES keynote after they like NVIDIA, got all the AI out of their system.
The company claims to have included some pretty potent graphics in the chips.
The 8700G top chip in the lineup can allegedly reach 60 FPS playing Cyberpunk at 1080p
and can also reach playable frame rates in many other games.
At least that's according to the company's gorgeous butt information poor diagrams.
They're like the himbos of graphs. AMD seems to be firmly targeting budget inclined gamers
or anyone who wants to play something while they're saving up for a discrete GPU.
But AMD wouldn't know much about discretion based on how much time they've dedicated
to publicly tearing Intel's Meteor Lake apart.
When they were done throwing Intel around, they threw everyone for a loop
by announcing new Ryzen 5000 series processors, including the Ryzen 7 5700X3D.
These sound like three-generational chips thanks to Team Red's dumb new numbering scheme.
Your numbers sound very cool AMD. You know what sounds cooler though?
Meaningful numbers. So it's called that? We're doing a thing.
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Apple's Vision Pro will be available for pre-order on January 19th, starting at 5 a.m.
to be picked up or delivered on February 2nd. It's all the excitement of a midnight release,
except you still have to wait another two weeks to actually get your hands on the thing.
Oh, I can't wait. Thus spoke Tim Cook. The error of spatial computing has arrived.
The optional vision correcting lens inserts range between $99 for reading lenses
and $149 for prescription lenses, both only available online.
The latter requires a valid prescription and according to a tiny footnote,
not all prescriptions are supported. I'm not sure exactly what that means,
but apparently the technology of the future is simply incompatible with certain kinds of eyeballs,
probably yours. Pay $3,500 to not see.
LG showed off a transparent OLED TV this morning, a device that's kind of cool, but also kind of useless,
which is what CS is really about. Unlike previous prototypes,
the company has shown the LG Signature OLED,
T for transparent, also pronounced OLED in French,
is pretty much a final product that is planned to launch this year.
It has a space behind its 77-inch display where you can place objects in order to prompt reactions
like, huh, that's cool, I guess. Or you can raise the contrast filter
to eliminate transparency, making it seem like you had bought a normal TV
like a poor person, who would use that? Apple has begun paying out a $500 million settlement
to a class action lawsuit claiming that the company intentionally throttled
the performance of older iPhone models. You remember in 2017 when Apple admitted
to slowing the batteries on older phone models, which they stated was intended
to improve the device's longevity, right? Apple agreed to the settlement back in 2020,
but the company maintains there was no wrongdoing on their part.
The payment to each member of the suit will be worth around $92.
So good news, if you had an iPhone with terrible battery life eight years ago, I guess,
I mean, with inflation. Put that in the bank and then save up.
You can buy your mom an iPhone. Or a replacement left AirPod. BMW unveiled new updates to their cars,
including multiple video gaming features. Yes, while you can already play games
in the company's cars, BMW is making that experience better by adding the ability to connect Bluetooth controllers
so you can play split screen games in your expensive German car
with your friends and hall effect joysticks. Finally, BMW drivers will more easily be able
to unwind after many stressful hours of not using turn signals.
And tech company and bear grills, fortune telling cousin, Sear grills,
unveiled an AI powered grill at CES.
The device costs $3,500, but if you act now, you can get $1,000 off if you pre-order
this unproven machine before January 15th. What a steal. Sounding a lot like the Vision Pro.
Sear grills claims the grill can cook a one inch rib eye steak
in fewer than two minutes. Their secret, AI.
The second secret, trapping the meat in a vertical cage and blasting both sides simultaneously
with temperatures over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It also makes pizza.
Yum yum. And you'll be a real pizza work
if you don't come back on Wednesday for more tech news.
I'm kidding. You know I can't stop loving you.
Is that Chris Pratt?