PCWorld interviews Gigabyte CEO Eddie Lin at CES
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- PCWorld interviews Gigabyte CEO Eddie Lin at CES 2026, protecting AI’s increasing function in gaming and rising {hardware} prices from reminiscence worth will increase.
- Lin reveals clear OLED screens might arrive inside two years and notes minimal efficiency variations between 16GB and 32GB RAM for avid gamers.
- Gigabyte plans progressive motherboard designs with back-facing connectors and wooden panels whereas emphasizing differentiation within the aggressive handheld gaming market.
It’s wonderful who you possibly can run into at CES, the world’s largest electronics present. For instance, Adam Patrick Murray bumped into Eddie Lin, the CEO of Gigabyte. Granted, it was at Gigabyte’s showcase, and he went there particularly to satisfy him for an interview. However who’s to say that isn’t wonderful?
The large theme of CES 2026 is “AI” in the whole lot, as has been the case for the final two years. And Lin was fast to hype up Gigabyte {hardware}’s talents within the space, saying that the corporate is targeted on bringing the advantages of the brand new tech to gaming. Precisely how Gigabyte intends to ship a “completely recent expertise” by way of {hardware} was much less clear.
If there’s a secondary theme of CES 2026, it’s the incipient pricing disaster, because of reminiscence prices exploding. That is inflicting the worth of RAM, storage, graphics playing cards, and by extension just about the whole lot having to do with laptops and desktops, to rise precipitously.
Lin’s answer is what he calls a “efficiency matrix,” i.e., measuring each element for parts that really contribute to gaming efficiency. “For instance,” he says, “we measured 16 gigabytes versus 32 gigabytes [of RAM] for avid gamers, and the efficiency hole is just one or two %.”
Lin additionally spoke on motherboard design, incorporating options like back-facing connectors for clear builds, and classy accents like wooden panels. There’s thrilling information on the OLED entrance, as he believes that clear OLED screens are just one to 2 years away (and I assume meaning prototypes we would see at, say, CES 2028).
Adam desires to learn about handhelds, as a result of he’s probably the most important fan of the Steam Deck and comparable {hardware} on the PCWorld workforce. (He was taking part in within the taxi on the best way to the lodge.) “…A lot of Chinese language makers additionally construct handhelds,” says Lin. “An important factor is, identical to with a pill… what’s the differentiation we will have? That’s the one factor I believe, the way to construct with differentiation.”
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