CES 2026 - It's Cars, Chips, and Making Any Toilet Smart - DTNS 5179
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Bodie Grimm sifts through the car tech talk, we make chip news interesting, and so much health tech.
Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Allison Sheridan, Bodie Grimm, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, January 6th, 2026. |
| 0:12.5 | We tell you what you need to know, give you important context, and help each other understand. |
| 0:16.3 | Today we're live from CES 26, Las Vegas, Nevada, talking all the tech news, breaking and what's not |
| 0:23.9 | breaking and what we've seen and what we haven't seen. It's a thing. That'll make sense in a minute. |
| 0:28.9 | The floor just opened right as we're starting. I'm Tom Merritt. I'm Rob Dunwood. I'm Allison |
| 0:33.3 | Sheridan. And I'm Bodie Grimm. Back at headquarters in Los Angeles, I'm Sarah Lane. I'm also remote. |
| 0:39.7 | I'm Roger Chang. Since we last spoke, we got announcements from NVIDIA, from Intel, AMD, and Sony, Honda Mobility. |
| 0:46.2 | Later today, and so stuff we'll be talking about tomorrow, MobileI has an announcement related to |
| 0:51.3 | autonomous driving. That's at 145 p.m. Pacific. CES streams those, so if you want to watch that. |
| 0:56.1 | Lenovo is holding an event at the sphere at 5 p.m. Pacific. |
| 1:01.7 | Intriguing discussion coming on that a little later. |
| 1:04.6 | But let's get to the big story, the chips. |
| 1:07.9 | Yay! |
| 1:10.6 | It is my job to make these chip announcements interesting to all. |
| 1:14.8 | So whether you are a chip enthusiast, in which case you're already probably interested, |
| 1:18.8 | or you're Allison, I'm going to try to make these. |
| 1:22.4 | Very interesting, Allison. |
| 1:24.3 | Watch Allison's eye levels, if they droop to see if I'm doing my job. But help me out, help me out. Invidius, biggest product these days is data center chips. So we have a new data center chip called Vera Rubin. Do you know who Vera Rubin is, Allison? I do. Yeah, yeah. I'm not going to tell you. Did you know before you saw it in the |
| 1:44.5 | rundown? I did not. No, I did not. I heard of her. Yes, Vera Rubin was an astronomer who |
| 1:48.9 | solved a problem in galaxy rotation rates that indicated the presence of dark matter. So following on |
| 1:55.1 | Hopper and Blackwell, they have named their next line, Rubin. The architecture is designed for better agentic reasoning, improvements, reduced storage, reduced interconnection bottlenecks. |
| 2:08.9 | They estimated it will be three and a half times faster, which, I mean, if it wasn't faster, I would be very surprised. |
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