Gigabyte loudly and proudly says it is ‘AI Ahead’ at CES 2026

As you may anticipate from CES 2026, we’re already beginning to see all issues AI. Gigabyte is only one firm redoubling its dedication to the machine studying tech, unveiling its newest AI server ecosystem throughout this yr’s tradeshow and proudly claiming the “AI Ahead” banner.

Gigabyte going massive on AI is nothing new, loudly and proudly describing itself as an AI firm throughout its Computex 2024 presentation. At present’s CES announcement introduces a choice of native AI choices within the type of the AI Prime collection. The flagship AI Prime Atom is billed as a “private AI supercomputer, delivering petaflop-scale efficiency in a compact, energy-efficient kind issue.” With 128 GB of RAM, it is suited in direction of native AI growth and thrashing at 200B parametre Massive Language Fashions.

At CES 2026, the Taiwanese firm additionally unveiled their modular, “one-stop AI information middle resolution” fittingly referred to as the Gigapod. Gigabyte says, “[It] integrates high-performance servers, high-speed networking, and Gigabyte Pod Supervisor (GPM) software program, streamlining AI infrastructure design, deployment, and validation—accelerating the creation of enterprise AI Factories.”

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It is maybe an oddly giant scale enterprise resolution to tout on the client electronics present, however a very attention-grabbing to distinction towards pricey outdated Dell’s CES 2026 presentation. CES is an occasion that has change into suffused with all issues AI in recent times and, to be clear, Dell is not executed with AI—the corporate merely recognises that the common finish consumer is not all that fussed about AI options.

Dell head of product Kevin Terwilliger defined, “What we have discovered over the course of this yr, particularly from a client perspective, is they don’t seem to be shopping for primarily based on AI. The truth is I believe AI in all probability confuses them greater than it helps them perceive a particular consequence.”

It is notable as client demand is arguably the AI business’s subsequent massive hurdle; if massive tech corporations cannot create one thing in the best way of a ‘killer app’ that finish customers wish to pay for, then the AI business’s monetary viability could crumble over the long run. Maybe that is one motive why Gigabyte has been so loud about its AI enterprise options on the consumer-focused tradeshow—each little bit helps, and the enterprise sector usually has extra to spend.

AMD’s Lisa Su says “emphatically” that there isn’t any AI bubble, and IBM’s Arvind Krishna is of an analogous thoughts. Nonetheless, market analysts additionally declare that not solely is the business very a lot blowing up a bubble, however that the AI bubble is 4 instances bigger than the subprime bubble that precipitated the 2008 crash. With what number of billions are tied up in round investments just like the partnerships between Anthropic, Microsoft, and Nvidia, or Nvidia and OpenAI, I am much less inclined to take the tech CEOs’ phrase for it—although even Sam Altman has beforehand mentioned “Somebody goes to lose an outstanding amount of cash” attributable to unwise AI investments.