CES 2021 is going ahead in January, but not as we know it. Rather than spanning a handful of hotels, exhibition centres, and casinos in Las Vegas, the crowded tech show will instead be beamed across ethernet cables and over Wi-Fi networks. Thousands of attendees, companies, and exhibitors will be taking their show online for the virtual event.From January 11 until January 14, 2021, CES 2021 will open its virtual doors to attendees. CES is a trade-only event, and as such, you can't just catch everything from the comfort of your own home, but that shouldn't mean you miss out on the latest news and announcements from the show. Not only will major companies beam out their own special events over the course of those few days—more details on those below—but we here at PC Gamer are prepped and ready to distil all the best bits from the biggest names in PC hardware into bite-size chunks.You can expect to hear from all sorts of familiar faces at the show. The big three for PC silicon, Intel, AMD, and Nvidia, of course; but also the biggest names in components, peripherals, and monitors, too. You name a company, they'll probably have something going on over those few days—even if it's technically CES-adjacent and not officially part of the show. After all, it's a great time to set up expectations and let people know what you have in store for the rest of 2021.
CES 2021 is going ahead in January, but not as we know it. Rather than spanning a handful of hotels, exhibition centres, and casinos in Las Vegas, the crowded tech show will instead be beamed across ethernet cables and over Wi-Fi networks. Thousands of attendees, companies, and exhibitors will be taking their show online for the virtual event. From January 11 until January 14, 2021, CES 2021 will open its virtual doors to attendees. CES is a trade-only event, and as such, you can’t just catch everything from the comfort of your own home, but that shouldn’t mean you miss out on the latest news and announcements from the show. Not only will major companies beam out their own special events over the course of those few days—more details on those below—but we here at PC Gamer are prepped and ready to distil all the best bits from the biggest names in PC hardware into bite-size chunks. You can expect to hear from all sorts of familiar faces at the show. The big three for PC silicon, Intel, AMD, and Nvidia, of course; but also the biggest names in components, peripherals, and monitors, too. You name a company, they’ll probably have something going on over those few days—even if it’s technically CES-adjacent and not officially part of the show. After all, it’s a great time to set up expectations and let people know what you have in store for the rest of 2021. CES 2021 datesCES 2021 exhibitorsCES 2021 streamsCES 2021 how to watch Not everything that comes out of CES actually, well, comes out, however. It’s often not a bad thing—the opposite, in fact. Prototypes are some of the more exciting products to come out of the show, and Razer is known to tease a prototype to generate some buzz, such as the famous Razer triple-display laptop known as Project Valerie. Alienware also made a splash with its Project UFO gaming handheld in 2020, which is also MIA and presumed in the bin or otherwise deterred.
