Intel has confirmed its presence on the CES 2025 show floor, as the firm is expected to announce "groundbreaking innovations" for both client computing and the AI markets.
Intel's co-CEO Reveals Schedule Of Highly-Anticipated CES 2025 Keynote, Likely Revealing The Future of Team Blue
Team Blue isn't having a great time in business, but it looks like the company's future is indeed bright. Intel has announced its schedule for CES 2025, and the firm is expected to start its keynote presentation earlier than NVIDIA and AMD on January 6 at 8:30 a.m. PST. Labeled as "Intel-Driven Keynote: AI Inside for a New Era," it will be the first time we will see Intel's new co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus leading the event alongside Jim Johnson, SvP of Client Computing Group. Unfortunately, Pat Gelsinger won't be there anymore, so that's a change we will need to adapt.
In terms of what to expect from Intel at this keynote, it's likely that the word "AI" will be a lot more frequent, but jokes aside, we will most probably see the launch of Intel's Arrow Lake-H and HX variants, which is a similar trend to what we saw with Raptor Lake mobile SKUs. For the desktop, Team Blue is expected to launch the non-K variants of their Arrow Lake "Core Ultra 200S" CPUs, and we are also anticipating the debut of budget motherboards with LGA 1851 compatibility, likely the B860 series.
For the graphics segment, there's a slight chance that we might see additional Battlemage SKUs launched alongside the Intel Arc B850 GPU, but this isn't certain for now, given that Intel tends to switch up release schedules quite often. Other updates include what's going on with Intel Foundry and likely an extensive update on the 18A process, which is set to be the division's next mainstream product.
Next month is surely going to be an exciting one, and we cannot wait to see what companies bring to the tech markets. As always, stay tuned for the latest information from the CES 2025 show floor.