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Welcome to your first CES version of TMA, attempting (almost futilely) to distill nan biggest merchandise reveals and announcements. Despite 2 days of briefings and conferences, coming is simply time one. However, we’ve already seen Sony Honda uncover its adjacent car — and nan Afeela 1 isn’t yet connected sale. We’ve sewage a heavy dive connected what we’ve seen truthful far, correct here.
AMD announced caller Ryzen AI 400 laptop processors and updated desktop chips, including nan Ryzen 7 9850X3D, pinch a caller attraction broadly connected AI processing improvements. NVIDIA had a lengthy, dense property convention showing disconnected its power successful AI tech, but it lacked awesome user announcements — until overnight, erstwhile it revealed next-gen G-Sync tech and an upgraded type of DLSS. The caller tech tin grip up to 4K 240Hz way traced performance. It besides adds an improved type of Super Resolution Transformer, pinch much stability.
This year’s wildcard CES property convention was… Lego? It revealed Smart Bricks, which adds sensors, audio and wireless connection to accepted Lego pieces. The strategy is launching pinch Star Wars sets later this twelvemonth — and possibly crucially, nary smartphone aliases surface is needed to play.
There’s besides LG and Samsung to get into — much connected those below!
— Mat Smith
The different large stories (and deals) this morning
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Trifold gets maine excited astir foldables again
Phone and tablet, together.
Engadget
After launching its double-folding smartphone successful Korea, Samsung is giving its newest foldable nan property circuit astatine CES 2026 and, contempt reservations, it’s slick. The cardinal quality betwixt nan Z Trifold and nan Z Fold bid is simply a 2nd fold-out wing, turning it from a accepted smartphone into a much tablet-like shape factor, person to what we’re utilized to. Farewell square-ish screens.
This is what we were promised erstwhile foldables first appeared: a larger surface that offers greater inferior than accepted smartphones, without compromise. Sam Rutherford tested 1 out. Read connected for his impressions.
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Samsung’s elephantine 130-inch TV is present to make you want Micro RGB TVs
In much wall-friendly sizes.
Engadget
The large uncover astatine Samsung’s First Look CES property convention was virtually big: a flagship 130-inch Micro RGB TV framed by a elephantine metallic easel pinch embedded speakers. It’s overmuch much successful nan realm of conception than reality — nary price, nary merchandise date. It useful arsenic a halo merchandise for much realistic TV sets utilizing Samsung’s caller preferred show technology. This twelvemonth it’ll beryllium offering TVs successful 55-, 65- and 75-inch sizes. And if you’re curious, we explicate what Micro RGB TVs are.
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LG’s attack to TVs astatine CES 2026? Variety.
Oh, and scale.
Engadget
CES 2026 marks nan return of LG’s ultra-thin Wallpaper TV. The latest type sports a gorgeous OLED surface and wireless connectivity, and it’s astir arsenic bladed arsenic a pencil. We checked retired nan caller Wallpaper TV during a CES preview event, on pinch LG’s Gallery and Micro RGB sets. If money were nary object, I’d want a 100-inch LG Wallpaper TV. According to Devindra Hardawar, it looks “shockingly thin” successful person.
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