Since 1967, the world’s largest consumer electronics show (International Consumer Electronics Show, hereinafter referred to as CES) has been held in Las Vegas for 54 consecutive years, but this year due to the epidemic, it will be online for the first time. Starting from January 11 this year, the four-day exhibition will begin.
Last year, CES attracted 171,268 participants, including 6,517 journalists from all over the world. Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the organizer of CES, said that this year’s online exhibition may not be as large as offline, but there are still 1,000 exhibiting companies and an estimated 150,000 attendees. Many of them are attending CES for the first time.
Regarding what new technologies there will be in 2021, Shapiro believes that 5G communications, 8K TVs, robots, VR, AR, and drones will be the direction of the future, and issues such as supervision and privacy will become more prominent. And what will happen to the 2021 online CES show? The American technology media VentureBeat conducted an in-depth interview with Shapiro.
The following is a compilation of the interview content. In order to conform to the Chinese reading habit, Zhi Shi has been deleted and modified without changing the original intent.
It is reported that the exhibitors participating in CES this year include Accenture, Bosch, Canon, Hisense, IBM, Intel, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Mercedes-Benz, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung Electronics, TCL and Voxx, and other technology giants, as well as Bridgestone and Caterpillar. Other non-traditional technology companies include Wal-Mart, L’Oreal, Omron Healthcare, and Procter & Gamble.
Unlike exhibitions that specialize in a particular field or the press conferences of individual manufacturers, CES covers almost the entire consumer electronics field from mobile phones, chips to cars, and it can be said to be the vane of global consumer electronics.
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