28 PCWorld FEBRUARY 2020NEWS CES 2020: CHIPS, LAPTOPS & BADASS PC GEAR
mess (go.pcworld.com/thn4). (But hey, USB4
logos will actually make sense! [go.pcworld.
com/u4lg].) On the brighter side, the
company said that Comet Lake H mobile
processors will hit 5GHz (go.pcworld.com/
clkh) when they launch later
this quarter, and showed off
several big wins in radical
laptops thanks to its Project
Athena initiative and its
investment in innovative
form factors. We’ll cover
laptops more extensively
later.
Intel also showed off its
much-leaked “Ghost
Canyon” NUC (go.
pcworld.com/gnuc), whichis basically a mini-PC-in-a-mini-PC that
revolves around a replaceable Intel Compute
Element card stocked with the mobile CPU,
RAM, chipset, and storage. There’s PCIe x4
and x16 slots next to the Compute Element,
too, ready to accept discrete graphics and
storage add-in cards—handy preparation for
when Xe launches later. Watch Alaina rip
inside Ghost Canyon in the video at the link.
Nvidia had a lower profile at CES 2020. It
didn’t release updated graphics cards, show
off a new Shield console, or (finally) launch
GeForce Now out of beta. But the company
brought it when it came to monitors,
showing off face-melting 360 freakin’ Hz
G-Sync Esports displays (go.pcworld.com/
espt), and new mini-LED G-Sync Ultimate
monitors (go.pcworld.com/mnld) with 1,152
backlight zones capable of a blazing 1,400
nits. We called the first wave of G-Sync
Ultimate displays the Holy Grail of gamingIntel showed off its NUC 9 mini PC.AMD unveiled its 360Hz G-Sync Esports displays at CES.