CES 2026 Day One: Samsung’s Rollable Phone, NVIDIA’s 6-Nanometer GPU, and Dell’s Zero-Wedge Laptop Steal the Show

Las Vegas, NV — The Curtain Rises

The desert dawn hadn’t yet broken when the first line of badge-wearing pilgrims snaked around the Las Vegas Convention Center. By 8:17 a.m., Samsung’s vice president of mobile, Jun-hee Han, pressed a champagne-colored button and a 6.7-inch smartphone unrolled like a parchment to become a 10-inch tablet. The crowd gasped; a new category was christened.

Samsung’s Rollable Reality

Dubbed the Galaxy Flex Scroll, the device uses a micro-creased OLED that Samsung claims survives 200,000 cycles. Pre-orders open Friday at $1,799, undercutting last year’s foldables by $200.

"We’re not chasing novelty; we’re chasing utility," Han told reporters, pocketing the phone as it snapped shut with the confidence of a vintage cigarette case.

NVIDIA Drops the “Blackwing” GPU

Across the hall, CEO Jensen Huang arrived in his signature leather jacket and unveiled the GeForce Blackwing B1, the first 6-nanometer gaming card built on TSMC’s new process. Ray-traced Cyberpunk 2077 hovered at 240 fps on a 4K OLED, while power draw stayed 28 % below the 5090. The card ships in March at $899; an AI-assisted frame-gen tool promises another 35 % bump for streamers.

Dell’s Zero-Wedge Laptop

Dell saved its surprise for the last beat of the keynote: the XPS Zero, a 13-inch notebook whose keyboard deck tapers to a literal paper-thin 1.9 mm. Magnesium-lithium alloy and a side-vent vapor chamber keep Intel’s new 15-watt Arrow Lake-U chip below 60 °C. Battery life: 18 hours. Price: $1,299; available Earth Day to underscore its 82 % recyclable chassis.

What Else Landed on Day One

• Sony’s XR contact lenses that overlay 4K subtitles for live theater.
• Withings’ sleep-tracking pillow that diagnoses sleep apnea without a chest strap.
• BMW’s color-changing concept car that uses e-ink panels to flash turn indicators across the entire body.

Market Pulse

Tech analysts at Gartner forecast the flex-display segment alone will reach $18 billion by 2028, up from $3.2 billion in 2024. Samsung’s share price ticked 4 % higher in Seoul on heavy volume; NVIDIA added $17 in after-hours trading.

The Road Ahead

Press badges are already queued for tomorrow’s drone-swarm light show above the Bellagio fountains. Expect updates from Google, LG, and Rivian as CES 2026 stretches into the weekend. For now, the first day ends with the sure knowledge that the future just unrolled—literally—before our eyes.