EAGLE EYE VIEW CES 2025
Future focus The CES event was held in Las Vegas earlier this month and, as always, it showcased a wide range of technology and gave an insight into what businesses in the channel might be seeing over here in the coming months.
It’s not truly the new year in the channel until CES kicks off – all tech aficionados, market analysts and product managers were keenly watching the buzz surrounding Las Vegas to see what lies in store for us in 2025. With exciting announcements spanning from smart homes and vehicles to space tech and esports, let’s look at a highlight reel of the big waves in tech made between January 7 and 10 across the pond. Current best in show It was a busy year at CES, with new technology appearing across varied industries. At Stock in the Channel, we monitor several different categories in the market for trends, and the following product announcements will keep us on our toes in the coming months as we expect them to enter distribution. Peering over the rest With a slew of laptops being announced this year, the one that has caused the biggest stir in the market has to be the Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable. It is marketed as an ‘AI PC’, but its most striking feature is the rollable display
screen that extends to reveal a 16.7-inch display while maintaining its slim chassis and a meagre weight of 1.69kg. Expected to hit shelves in June, we are eagerly looking forward to seeing what use cases the market comes up with given 50% more screen space in one device. Battle of the GPUs When the rockstar that is Jensen Huang walks out on stage at a tech convention, you know there is something big coming.
Wickus Bester, B2B channel analyst
stockinthechannel.co.uk
Jensen Huang, ceo
nvida.com
This year he dropped one of the most exciting announcements of CES: NVIDIA will be releasing the long-awaited GeForce RTX 50 series in March. This series will be based on the Blackwell Architecture, using Neural Rendering to improve performance and image quality. This “most powerful consumer GPU ever created” will be
Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable
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