AMD CES 2023 keynote liveblog: Dr. Lisa Su kicks off the biggest tech event of the year

Percy! Oh damn, RIP Oppy. That one still stings. 

Former NASA astronaut Dr. Cady Coleman takes the stage to talk about space exploration and AMD, which is John Loeffler-bait if there ever was any.

No. Don’t do it, Dr. Su… Not the metaverse.

I still don’t know exactly what adaptive computing means, honestly.

It wouldn’t be CES without med-tech talk, and it’s probably more important than a lot of the other stuff we’ve seen so far, but it’s hard to make medical devices splashy. Ultimately, I’m just glad we’re not talking about the meta/omniverse.

No graphics cards (yet), unfortunately.

So we’re getting three X3D chips, the 7800X3D, the 7900X3d, and the 7950X3D, all due out in February.

The 7950X3D might be the chip that dethrones the 13900K, at least for gaming. I’m not sure that Intel cares, but its something that gamers are going to love.

Ryzen 9 7950X3D with 144MB cache, holy hell!

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D!

Ok, X3D CPUs! Let’s go!

I am definitely excited for the Lenovo Legion Pro series. The Legion gaming laptops are a sleeper powerhouse that a lot of people seem to be missing, which is a shame. The Lenovo Legion 5 Pro is one of my favorite gaming laptops ever.

AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT and Ryzen 7945 HX, which definitely should help AMD gain some market share in the gaming laptop space, especially among budget gaming laptops.

So are we getting processors or graphics cards? GIVE US BOTH!

Ok, gaming time!

HP Presidednt and CEO Enrique Lores hyping up hybrid work (preach!), as well as noting that the freelance workforce is booming in the US, so yeah, we can get better webcams (or you can buy one off of our best webcams list)!

Hybrid work talk now, meanwhile tech companies everywhere are demanding everyone come back to the office. Which one will win out?

Ok, so they’re talking about the “future” of AI and Windows, so maybe Windows 12 talk? Lots of AI workloads that nobody was expecting, more AI integration into Windows in the future now that the hardware is there?

Speaking of the Xbox, the AMD processor and GPU in the Xbox Series X (and PlayStation 5) is like two generations old and the GPU is about as powerful as a RX 6600 XT, but its capable of 60 fps @ 4K with ray tracing. That’s the power of knowing what kind of hardware you’re programming for well ahead of time and being able to optimize for hardware.

Su introducing Panos Panay, EVP and Chief Product Officer for Microsoft, and having some conference banter.

First laptops shipping in March, across ultrabook and gaming laptop categories.

30+ hour battery life on video playback? That’s quite a claim. We’re definitely looking forward to testing that one.

Su introduces AMD Ryzen 7040 series processors for notebooks, incorporating AMD XDNA AI processing, RDNA 3 GPU, and more.

Dr. Su takes the stage!

CTA president Gary Shapiro is introducing Su now, and to be honest, Shapiro is probably thrilled to be talking to a full ballroom after the past couple of years. 

And here we go!

Ultimately, we’ll know in about five minutes according to the announcer here at the event, so stay tuned!

Then, of course, there’s mobile to consider. We could see some new mobile CPUs and GPUs as well, which is good because based on what we’ve seen here, the new RTX 40-series laptops are some formidable machines.

And what about graphics cards? The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is the best graphics card AMD has ever put out, and it’s better than the RTX 4080 in my opinion, especially for the price. 

With the RTX 4070 Ti announcement, there’s every hope that AMD will make an RX 7800 XT announcement tonight to make AMD even more competitive in the GPU space.

With 10 minutes left to go, I can say that we are definitely hoping for some new processors with 3D V-Cache. The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D is one of the best processors ever, even with the latest Ryzen 7000-series chips.

We’d love to see what 3D V-Cache on Zen 4 will look like, and hopefully we’ll get a taste tonight.

So we’re here at the Palazzo Ballroom at The Venetian hotel as the crowd starts filtering in ahead of AMD’s keynote address. We’ve got about 15 minutes to go now!

So what are we going to get tonight? New 3D V-cache processors? The Radeon RX 7800 XT? Both? we’ll know soon enough!

Greetings tech heads! This is John Loeffler, computing editor for TechRadar, on the ground in a rather chilly Sin City, USA. The crew and I are getting ready to head over to the Venetian to watch AMD’s CES 2023 Keynote address, so we’ll be bringing you all the latest as it happens, so stay tuned for news on everything AMD!