Along with the normal tradeshow coverage from CESS 2025 the duo like to sit down and do a quick debrief on some of the highlights that may or may not have made it into the normal show coverage. The interesting thing about CES is how it completely changes from year to year and is generally a reflection of the state of consumer electronics and technology.
For the past several years the focus has been on IoT, electric everything and fancy new TVs. However, for 2025 there was a renewed interest into AI and Machine Learning. Most of us know this as simply chatting with a language model however you can use the same logic and reasoning to analyze traffic and data patterns or even progressively enhance images to achieve better performance and higher quality. If you think of AI as simply an “automation” of what we can normally do manually you will quickly see the power that AI can bring.
Of course, on the computer hardware side of things, the announcements were more subtle. The biggest launch was the consumer grade RTX 50 Series based on the Blackwell architecture and how every hardware vendor was excited to release custom versions of this GPU. Along with that there were major upgrades to system (DRAM) performance, storage performance and a major effort to focus more on AMD Ryzen performance and overclocking now that Intel has started to refocus their efforts.
CES 2025 Show Coverage
Episode 165 featured music:
Little People - Start Shootin' (http://www.littlepeoplemusic.com/)
