Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor and Faraday’s would-be Tesla beater show off at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show. Text by Bloomberg; photographs by Patrick T Fallon and David Paul Morris

1ST PHOTO: Members of the media view the BMWi Inside Future concept vehicle during a CES press event on Wednesday. BMW will dispatch a fleet of autonomous vehicles to US and European cities in this year’s second half, the next step in its
partnership with Mobileye and Intel Corp to introduce fully self-driving vehicles by 2021.

2ND PHOTO: An attendee takes a photograph of himself wearing the R-9 augmented reality (AR) glasses, manufactured by Osterhout Design Group during a Qualcomm press event on Tuesday. Qualcomm, the largest maker of mobile phone chips, showed off its newest smartphone part, the Snapdragon 835, a product aimed at getting the company into the PC market.

3RD PHOTO: A Samsung Electronics Co 75Q8C QLED TV, part of the Q8 series, sits on display during a Samsung press event on
Tuesday. CES, celebrating its 50th year, showcased self-driving cars, TVs, drones, robots, and a slew of other gadgets.

4TH PHOTO: A prototype of a car interior with instruments powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor is displayed during the company’s press event on Tuesday.

5TH PHOTO: A US penny is used for scale next to the Qualcomm 820, left, and the 835 Snapdragon processors during the company’s press event on Tuesday.

6TH PHOTO: A camera, replacing the side mirror, is seen on a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Portal concept minivan on Tuesday. Fiat
Chrysler is laying out a vision of a battery-powered, self-driving minivan that it bets even a millennial could love. That may not be enough to shake the automaker’s image as the purveyor of the least fuel-efficient fleet in the US.

7TH PHOTO: A display demonstrating Faraday Future’s Variable Platform Architecture concept is seen ahead of the unveiling of the company’s FF91 electric car, on Tuesday. Faraday Future staked its claim to the world’s fastest electric car with its FF91 production model, showing footage of it outracing Tesla Motors’s Model S in a glitzy event in Las Vegas.

8TH PHOTO: David VanderWaal, vice president of marketing for LG Electronics USA, speaks about the LG InstaView Door-In-Door smart refrigerator during the company’s press conference on Wednesday.