CES 2021, the first virtual show in the convention’s history, put a bigger focus on gaming, which exploded in popularity in 2020. Companies unveiled impressive new laptops and monitors that promised big improvements over last year’s models, and cloud gaming finally came to TVs.
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Gaming laptops got a big boost at CES 2021, as Nvidia, AMD and Intel announced new mobile hardware.
Jeff Fisher, senior vice president of Nvidia GeForce, said during the company’s presentation that the new RTX 3000 series mobile hardware will arrive in “more than 70 laptops from every OEM.” AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su said during the company’s CES keynote that it expects to ship “more than 150 ultrathin, gaming and professional notebooks” featuring new AMD hardware in 2021. Intel didn’t have specific numbers to share, but the company did announce a quad-core “Special Edition” mobile processor for ultrathin gaming laptops. Chris Walker, corporate vice president and general manager of Intel’s Mobile Client Platforms Group, said the CPU will “deliver a new level of amazing, low-latency, immersive gameplay on the go.”
Laptop makers followed suit with new models to reveal. Razer showed off a new Blade 15 laptop with Nvidia RTX 3000-series GPUs; MSI released the Stealth 15M, an ultra-thin gaming laptop with Intel’s new quad-core gaming CPU; and Asus unveiled the Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE, a dual-display laptop with AMD Ryzen 9 processors and Nvidia RTX 3000-series graphics.