[Hardware] Latest PC Hardware News from the Show Floor

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The world's largest tech show, International CES, ran from January 5th to January 8th in 2023, with press events starting on January 3rd. Located in Las Vegas, CES is an annual coming out party for new PC products and platforms, ranging from CPUs and GPUs to laptops, gaming PCs, monitors, SSDs and a slew of peripherals and accessories. 

As the leading hardware enthusiast site, we had editors on the ground taking meetings with all the major vendors and scouring the show floor for innovations. And we also had a contingent of writers back at home, helping you keep up with all the announcements and what they mean to you and your tech life. 

Update 1/8/2023: CES 2023 has ended and so has our updating of this blog. However,  you can see a complete list of all of our CES articles below, along with 30+ posts covering the latest innovations (in order of publish). The show may be over, but most of these innovative products, including those we named in our best of CES 2023 awards, aren't out yet. So stay tuned.

CES's first day of exhibits is Thursday and the official press day is Wednesday so you might expect today (Tuesday) to be a dead time. In fact, when Tom's Hardware Deputy Managing Editor Paul Alcorn went to pick up his badge, he snapped this picture of a basically empty line.

However, today is also a day when a number of major press announcements rolled out that are going to have a real impact on the market and your next PC build. Nvidia  made the RTX 4070 Ti official, giving it an MSRP of $799 while also announcing a full series of RTX 4000 series cards for laptops(opens in new tab) that range from a 4090 to a 4050. 

Intel also launched its 13th Gen mobile CPUs, along with 16 new, locked desktop Raptor Lake chips(opens in new tab) that range from the Core i3-13100 on the low end to Core i9-13900 on the high end.

To take advantage of the new mobile CPUs and GPUs, we've seen laptop announcements from Asus, Acer and Dell / Alienware.  All of these launches were expected as we usually see Intel and Nvidia roll out chips at CES while PC vendors immediately incorporate the chips into new computers.

What's on tap for the rest of today? At 5 pm PT, CES Unveiled -- an expo where companies show their new wares to journalists -- starts. We'll be there to take a peek and see if we see anything new and noteworthy. Often, Unveiled isn't very interesting for us, because it doesn't have a lot of PC or enthusiast tech exhibitors.

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