CES 2026 Day 3: Foldables, Gaming PCs, and Everyday AI Take Center Stage

As CES 2026 entered its third day in Las Vegas, the spotlight shifted firmly from flashy concepts to products that signal where consumer technology is headed next: deeply integrated artificial intelligence, more powerful personal devices, and a renewed push toward mobility and gaming. 

One of the most talked-about announcements came from Motorola, which unveiled its new Razr Fold smartphone. Featuring an expansive 8.1-inch display, a 50MP Sony LYTIA camera, and enhanced on-device AI capabilities, the device reflects the industry’s growing confidence in foldables as a mainstream form factor rather than a niche experiment. 

Motorola’s latest entry positions it more aggressively against Samsung and Google, as competition in the foldable segment continues to intensify.

Gaming and PC hardware also had a strong showing. ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) marked its 20th anniversary at CES with a series of experimental and high-performance launches, including dual-screen gaming laptops, an eye-catching holographic-fan desktop PC, and collaborations that blur the line between gaming culture and hardware design. 

The announcements reinforced how gaming continues to act as a proving ground for advanced cooling, display, and AI-driven performance optimization technologies.

On the silicon front, Intel used Day 3 to signal its renewed ambitions in handheld gaming. The company showcased updates tied to its upcoming Core Series “Panther Lake” processors, positioning them as a foundation for next-generation portable consoles. 

As handheld gaming devices gain popularity beyond enthusiasts, Intel’s move highlights how chipmakers are increasingly tailoring architectures for power efficiency as much as raw performance.

Beyond individual product launches, AI remained the unifying theme across the show floor. Samsung, in particular, emphasized its vision of “AI everywhere,” demonstrating how artificial intelligence is being embedded across its ecosystem, from smartphones and televisions to home appliances. 

Rather than treating AI as a standalone feature, companies are now framing it as an invisible layer that adapts devices to users’ habits and environments.

AI’s growing influence was most evident on the infrastructure side. Lenovo announced the Lenovo AI Cloud Gigafactory, developed in partnership with NVIDIA. The initiative marks a significant expansion of the long-standing collaboration between the two companies, aimed at accelerating hybrid AI adoption across personal, enterprise, and public AI platforms.

During his keynote, Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang, joined by NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang, introduced the gigawatt-scale AI factory program as a major step toward enabling AI cloud providers to deploy next-generation AI workloads faster and at unprecedented scale. 

The program is designed to help organizations move more quickly from AI model creation to real-world production, an increasingly critical challenge as enterprises struggle to operationalize AI beyond pilots and proofs of concept.

Day 3 also highlighted how CES is evolving. While there were fewer jaw-dropping concept reveals compared to earlier years, the emphasis on practical AI applications, refined hardware, and ecosystem thinking reflects a more mature phase of the tech cycle.