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

CES 2023 is here, and with it, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su is set to give the event’s opening keynote address on Wednesday, January 4th at 6:30PM PST.

It will be the first in-person CES Keynote that AMD has given in more than two years, and we’re on the ground to cover the event live, as it happens. What will AMD announce? It’s anyone’s guess, but we’re expecting mobile Zen 4 processors and possibly some new graphics cards as well now that Nvidia has announced the RTX 408… I mean the RTX 4070 Ti. 

Will we see an AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT? We hope so, and hopefully we’ll also see AMD put out some new laptop hardware to compete with Intel and Nvidia on that front as well.

Last year, we saw the Ryzen 6000-series debut, but due to supply chain issues, we didn’t see too many laptops with the new AMD chips make it out to market. But with a new year comes new possibilities, so we’re excited to bring you news as it happens here in Las Vegas!

If you want to follow along with us, you can watch the livestream of the event below.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

And here we go!

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. 

Dr. Su takes the stage!

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

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

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

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

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.