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NVIDIA and Intel had their infinitesimal successful nan spotlight, and now it's AMD's turn. The chipmaker is kicking off CES 2026 connected Monday night, wherever it'll screen its latest AI developments and possibly show disconnected its newest Ryzen chips. It's nan kickoff keynote of CES 2026, and CEO Dr. Lisa Su is expected to outline really AMD's hardware will powerfulness nan AI gyration — and what nan institution tin connection partners and consumers that those aforementioned rivals can't.
We'll show you really to tune successful to nan livestream and what other you tin expect to see.
How to watch AMD's keynote live
Dr. Su will present a keynote reside from nan Palazzo Ballroom astatine nan Venetian connected Monday, January 5 astatine 9:30PM ET (6:30PM PT). You tin watch nan arena unrecorded connected nan CES YouTube channel (we've embedded nan livestream below).
Engadget will besides beryllium liveblogging nan AMD keynote successful real-time.
What to expect from AMD astatine CES 2026
While AMD says it's keeping its merchandise specifications nether wraps, we can expect "updates connected AI solutions, from unreality to enterprise, separator and devices."
It's besides apt that AMD will unveil its caller versions of nan Ryzen chips during its keynote connected Monday, arsenic Su will talk astir nan "advancements driven by Ryzen CPUs." That could see nan Ryzen 7 9850X3D, which is expected to person better single-threaded performance than its predecessors. Additionally, we tin expect to spot nan Ryzen 9000G series, which is perchance built pinch AMD's Zen 5 architecture.
Regarding AI, AMD could further talk its caller FSR Redstone technology, which it antecedently previewed connected December 10. AMD's upscaling tech intends to adjacent nan spread connected NVIDIA's DLSS 4, which was announced during CES 2025.
Su's position caps disconnected CES's property day, truthful she'll beryllium taking nan shape successful nan hours aft rivals NVIDIA and Intel coming their chipmaking and AI plans to nan world. As a reminder of really cross-linked these companies person become: OpenAI has pledged billions of dollars of hardware orders to AMD, while rival NVIDIA has invested billions successful OpenAI — and taken a liking worthy billions successful Intel, too.
