At the 2026 Consumer Electronic Show

Check out the latest tech at this year's CES from behind the scenes.

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Welcome to Electronic Design's coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show. This year's show looks to be heavy on artificial intelligence (AI) again, but there's a lot more.

Our editors will add to the content listed here as the show progresses and even more after the show. It takes time to process all of those videos and announcments.

Our coverage tends to be a bit different than most, as we focus on announcements and technology that's presented behind closed doors and of interest to engineers, programmers, and developers.

Featured Content

Here are the latest articles that we think will interest you, providing some behind-the-scenes info on new products and technologies.

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Hyundai 2-Stage Motor System and the NEXO FCEV
The 2-stage inverter technology could reimagine electric-vehicle acceleration, torque delivery, and daily driving performance.
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The single chip can serve as a pack monitor and communications gateway for high-voltage Li-ion batteries in EVs.
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Multi-frequency-region parallel sensing (MFRPS) is poised to enable larger-sized, thinner, and more responsive touchscreens.
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This automotive-qualified analog isolation amplifier tolerates kilovolts and delivers a single-ended ratiometric output voltage.
Ambient Energy Manager Handles Two Energy Harvesting Sources
Find out how e-peas’ PMIC supports energy harvesting from two sources.
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These low-power wireless microcontrollers support a raft of connectivity applications in smart-home, industrial, medical, and consumer settings.

Multimedia

Here are our latest videos and podcasts.

Bidirectional Battery Charger Uses Three-Phase Two-Level PFC
The STEVAL-11BID1KCB from STMicroelectronics — an 11-kW bidirectional battery charger —represents a complete solution for high-voltage charging in both industrial and automotive...
NPU Built Around RISC-V Core
Find out about RISC-V and the MIPS S8200 NPU that now supports AI/ML models.

More CES Articles

The Featured Articles above are just some of the content of our CES coverage. Check out the rest here.

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The integrated GaN half-bridge gate drivers bring flexibility and smart protection to a wide range of applications running on industrial or telecom bus voltages up to 220 V.
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Goodbye to fixed-performance lumped-element filters: Programmable MMIC-based units offer flexibility in tiny packages.
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Analog Devices’ new suite of design, simulation, and analysis tools accelerate and optimize the process of designing power systems.
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Synaptics’ Astra SL2610 runs Linux plus a 1-TOPS NPU for AI models.

Editor's Choice: From Previous Consumer Electronics Shows

These articles from previous years of coverage were chosen by the editors at Electronic Design.

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Check out the technology and announcements you probably won't see on the trade-show floor.
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Check out what Endeavor Business Media editors thought was most interesting at CES 2025.
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From IoT breakthroughs to energy-harvesting chips, CES 2025 showcased the latest technology that’s set to shape our lives. Here’s a look at some of the tech that stood out at ...
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The latest robots featured at this year’s CES handle tasks from lawn care to companionship using the latest innovative technologies.
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From ChatGPT in vehicles to generative AI in software development, here are some of the interesting solutions unveiled at CES 2024.
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BMW may have made the car, but the colors come courtesy of E Ink technology.

About the Author

William G. Wong

Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF

I am Editor of Electronic Design focusing on embedded, software, and systems. As Senior Content Director, I also manage Microwaves & RF and I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, programmers, developers and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.

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Check out my blog, AltEmbedded on Electronic Design, as well as his latest articles on this site that are listed below. 

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I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.  

I still get a hand on software and electronic hardware. Some of this can be found on our Kit Close-Up video series. You can also see me on many of our TechXchange Talk videos. I am interested in a range of projects from robotics to artificial intelligence. 

James Morra

Senior Editor

James Morra is the senior editor for Electronic Design, covering the semiconductor industry and new technology trends, with a focus on power electronics and power management. He also reports on the business behind electrical engineering, including the electronics supply chain. He joined Electronic Design in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Cabe Atwell

Technology Editor, Electronic Design

Cabe is a Technology Editor for Electronic Design. 

Engineer, Machinist, Maker, Writer. A graduate Electrical Engineer actively plying his expertise in the industry and at his company, Gunhead. When not designing/building, he creates a steady torrent of projects and content in the media world. Many of his projects and articles are online at element14 & SolidSmack, industry-focused work at EETimes & EDN, and offbeat articles at Make Magazine. Currently, you can find him hosting webinars and contributing to Electronic Design and Machine Design.

Cabe is an electrical engineer, design consultant and author with 25 years’ experience. His most recent book is “Essential 555 IC: Design, Configure, and Create Clever Circuits

Cabe writes the Engineering on Friday blog on Electronic Design. 

Andy Turudic

Technology Editor, Electronic Design

Andy Turudic is a Technology Editor for Electronic Design Magazine, primarily covering Analog and Mixed-Signal circuits and devices. He holds a Bachelor's in EE from the University of Windsor (Ontario Canada) and has been involved in electronics, semiconductors, and gearhead stuff, for a bit over a half century.

"AndyT" brings his multidisciplinary engineering experience from companies that include National Semiconductor (now Texas Instruments), Altera (Intel), Agere, Zarlink, TriQuint,(now Qorvo), SW Bell (managing a research team at Bellcore, Bell Labs and Rockwell Science Center), Bell-Northern Research, and Northern Telecom and brings publisher employment experience as a paperboy for The Oshawa Times.

After hours, when he's not working on the latest invention to add to his portfolio of 16 issued US patents, he's lending advice and experience to the electric vehicle conversion community from his mountain lair in the Pacific Northwet[sic].

AndyT's engineering blog, "Nonlinearities," publishes the 1st and 3rd monday of each month. Andy's OpEd may appear at other times, with fair warning given by the Vu meter pic.

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