Something to look forwards to: CES is simply i month away, and we now know when Intel volition be revealing details of its upcoming hardware: January four. We can expect to hear most the new Alder Lake notebook chips, Arc Alchemist, and much more than.

Intel'southward press briefing, which will take place at Mandalay Bay, starts at 10 am PST. We're expecting enough of info about the company's new laptop CPUs—Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M—too as details well-nigh the non-One thousand Alder Lake-S desktop fries, such equally the i9-12900, i5-12600, i5-12500, and i5-12400 seen in the photo below (from Chinese insider DDAA117).

Additionally, we can look news about some of the more than mainstream 600-series chipsets. Only virtually of the time could be spent talking nigh Arc Alchemist—might we discover if the flagship GPU really is as disappointing as some leaks suggest?

It had been claimed that AMD would take an official CES 2022 press conference on the same solar day every bit Intel's, but CES has confirmed this isn't the case. All the same, there are rumors that team red does have something planned for early adjacent year, possibly a separate virtual printing conference on Jan 4, which volition likely focus on the company's new Rembrandt CPU/APU line set to appear in the next generation of thin and powerful laptops. Both the Ryzen 6000H and Ryzen 6000U chips are expected to be revealed, with the former said to be based on the 6nm process node and characteristic Zen3+ technology, RDNA 2 graphics, a TDP of 35-45W, and a maximum of 8 cores/16 threads.

We're besides waiting for AMD to show off its lower-tier cards such as the Radeon RX 6500 XT or perhaps a refresh of some Radeon 6000 products. Don't be surprised to hear more about Zen 3D Five-Cache Vermeer-X CPUs at some betoken shortly, too.

Nvidia, meanwhile, hasn't announced the appointment or fourth dimension of its CES 2022 show. If information technology does have ane, or a carve up printing conference of its own, laptop GPUs will doubtlessly play a big part, and nosotros're hoping to hear about a range of new and refreshed desktop cards: the RTX 2060 12GB, RTX 3090Ti 24GB, 3080 12GB, 3070Ti 16GB, and more.

Intel'due south printing conference will exist alive-streamed, then make sure to tune in next month.

Update: The commodity originally claimed AMD would exist property an official CES 2022 press conference on the same day as Intel. This was incorrect and it has been updated.