What will we see at CES 2020? - Intel, AMD and NVIDIA are the big draws

Less than a week until the start of CES 2020 in Las Vegas. The first technological event of the year officially begins on January 7, but there are already conferences on January 6. It is possibly the most important event in recent years because of how the market is. Intel at a bad time, AMD reigning in processors and NVIDIA, as always, to his ball.

This year is especially turbulent in the hardware market, expecting great news. We are going to take out the crystal ball and we are going to try to see what the companies will show us during the first event of the year.

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Intel needs to make a splash

We will surely see Intel Comet Lake-S processors based on 14nm lithography, in this case an adaptation of 10nm. These new processors regain HyperThreading in all their processor families. As the maximum exponent we have the Core i9-10900K processor with 10 cores and 20 threads. For these new processors the LGA1200 socket will be launched, which implies renewing the motherboard, yes or yes.

But these Intel Comet Lake-S processors are not relevant at all. The lithography is more than worn and no longer gives more of itself, the blow of effect must come from another part. Rumors have surfaced in recent weeks that they might show 10nm server processors. Some rumors suggest that we would see a front of their first graphics cards, but it has not been confirmed.

Necessity is Intel's main problem right now. That and the outdated 14nm lithography, not being able to meet the demand for processors, the rumors about lower-than-expected GPUs, etc. Come on, either they take a bombshell out of their sleeve or it looks bad.

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AMD with the wind in favor

The one who best arrives at the Las Vegas event, without a doubt, is AMD. Everything indicates that we will see the APUs of the Ryzen 4000 family based on the Zen2 @ 7nm lithography, but the Vega GPUs will remain. We might get a ahead of Zen3 and RDNA.

Undoubtedly, the Las Vegas event is postulated as an excellent moment for AMD to take off the chest of the year 2019. We should see the first data from RDNA and perhaps confirm the ray tracing. Sony and Microsoft have required AMD to implement Ray Tracing on their consoles and that requires additional hardware. The performance cost of this technology is very important, as we have seen at NVIDIA.

Not only the domestic market will play a leading role, we also expect an important role from the Threadripper. Several of these processors are yet to hit the market and may be announced shortly. The 3980-core, 48-thread 94X is still missing, as is the 3990-core, 64-thread 128X.

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NVIDIA and Artificial Intelligence

If we follow what was shown by NVIDIA in the last conferences, it will be about AI and autonomous vehicles. They are two very important markets for the company and in which they invest millions. Solutions based on Tensor Cores for both segments are highly regarded in this specialized market.

Possibly Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of NVIDIA and man in the leather jacket, will tell us about games. We do not rule out that it will announce new Ray Tracing games that will appear in 2020. We also expect the first data regarding the Ampere GPUs, the next generation of graphics cards from the company.

Ampere based on the 7nm could offer us a brutal leap in performance over Turing @ 12nm. The new generation of graphics cards could improve performance by 25% and offer 4K @ 60FPS with Ray Tracing in the mid-range. These are all assumptions, of course, but the lithography jump could make it possible.

GeForce Now could be the big surprise. The arrival of Google Stadia to the market has caused important movements in Cloud Gaming. NVIDIA has been with this solution for years, which currently has a minimal and limited presence. This year it will be active in the Cloud Gaming market, starting a great competition in the on-demand gaming market.

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Corsair and its establishment in the market

Who has moved better in recent years in the hardware market has been Corsair. The peripheral company par excellence has gradually expanded its catalog in a brutal way. It has recently acquired SCUF Gaming and previously Origin PC and Elgato Gaming, improving its position in the market.

Corsair only currently does not offer motherboards, overheats, and graphics cards. I sincerely believe that this year it will offer one of these three products and they may be air-cooled. Getting into the market for gaming graphics cards and motherboards requires years of R&D.

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ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte

Few products remain to be released by both companies for the gaming market. We will undoubtedly see new peripherals, new monitors and of course, new graphics cards and motherboards.

I hope Gigabyte and ASUS follow in MSI's step of releasing an RGB-free motherboard. Users are tired of the overhead of RGB and that it is a necessary evil if you want a high-end motherboard. Lighting that provides absolutely nothing and involves an absurd additional cost.

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Noctua betting on white

Noctua fans are among the best on the market and the company is modernizing. Some time ago they started offering fans and heatsinks in black. This year the company could launch fans and possibly heatsinks in white. An important innovation that we hope will stay in new colors for fans and heatsinks and do not make the jump to the lights of whorehouses.

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Anything else?

Well as always we will see new components of all kinds by different manufacturers. Possibly we will see some madness like the Razer laptop with three screens that they showed a long time ago. This event also reveals hardware that will never be released. Prototypes