CES 2026 News Coverage

Jan 6 - 9

CES is North America's largest and most important technology trade show, held every year in Las Vegas, Nevada. It brings together the tech world to debut new hardware, consumer electronics, AI breakthroughs, and next-generation technologies.

Just like every year, we're covering CES live from Las Vegas with our on-site team, backed by editors at home, to deliver the quickest and most comprehensive updates from the show floor.

On this page you can find all of our news coverage for the event.

Sapphire Combines AMD Ryzen AI P100 and Versal FPGA in Mini ITX Motherboard

At CES 2026, Sapphire introduced its latest motherboard featuring AMD's Ryzen AI Embedded P132 APU. This APU includes six "Zen 5" cores with 12 threads, achieving a boost frequency of 4.5 GHz, and offers a configurable TDP ranging from 15 W to 54 W. It also integrates an RDNA 3.5 iGPU and an XDNA 2 NPU for local AI processing. Additionally, Sapphire's EDGE+ VPR-7P132 motherboard includes an unexpected accelerator: AMD's Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 FPGA, which allows the motherboard to process various external signals and create custom data paths as needed. Designed for industrial PCs that require continuous operation, this motherboard is ideal for applications such as smart cameras with sensor fusion and industrial robotics.

Sapphire Intros NITRO+ Phantom Link Radeon RX 9070 XT and X870E Socket AM5 Motherboard

Sapphire launched its flagship graphics card and motherboard featuring PhantomLink discreet power delivery technology. The tech sees an ASUS BTF-like GC-HPWR power-delivery slot located along the plane of the main PCI-Express 5.0 x16 slot, which delivers power to the graphics card without you having to wrestle with a delicate 12V-2x6 cable on top of the card. But then there's a catch. The motherboard isn't designed on the philosophy of backside connectivity like ASUS BTF or MSI Project Zero or GIGABYTE Stealth, the connects are all still located along the obverse side of the PCB. There is a 600 W-capable 12V-2x6 input located next to the 24-pin ATX, which simply routes power to the GC-HPWR slot.

Launching today, are the Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 XT PhantomLink PE graphics card, and the NITRO+ X870EA PhantomLink Socket AM5 motherboard. Both products have an identical silver-white color scheme and NITRO+ design theme that pair well visually. The graphics card features an overclocked RX 9070 XT with similar specs to the regular NITRO+ RX 9070 XT from Sapphire. The motherboard comes in two color trims, white+silver and black+silver. It offers a premium CPU VRM solution, a heavy M.2 PCIe Gen 5 heatsink, reinforced PCI-Express 5.0 x16 slot, premium Wi-Fi 7 and onboard audio solutions, and USB4. Sapphire is expected to showcase this along with example builds at CES next week.
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