MSI’s new Claw A8 is powered by AMD

MSI has revealed its latest iteration of its Claw PC gaming handheld — and this time, it’s powered by AMD. The institution showed disconnected the Claw A8 BZ2EM astatine Computex 2025, which comes with an AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme spot on with up to 24GB of DDR5 memory.

That’s a spot little than the 32GB of representation that came with the Intel-equipped Claw 8 AI Plus released late past year, but it inactive has an 8-inch afloat HD display, a 120Hz refresh rate, and a 1TB M.2 SSD. The AMD-powered Claw A8 volition besides travel successful 2 colors: achromatic and lime green.

MSI had a spot of a unsmooth commencement with the merchandise of its original Claw handheld successful March 2024, but it seemed to redeem itself with the motorboat of the MSI Claw 8 AI Plus. Lenovo besides snapped up 1 of AMD’s caller handheld-focused chips for the Legion Go S, but it uses the weaker Z2 Go version that my workfellow Sean Hollister said “can’t compete” with its predecessor’s Z1 Extreme.

There’s a caller MSI Claw 8 AI Plus “Polar Tempest” edition, too, which features an up to Intel Core Ultra 7 258V processor and a 2TB NVMe SSD. It besides has what MSI calls a “glittering” achromatic coating. MSI didn’t uncover a merchandise day oregon terms for either model, but it volition apt beryllium successful the aforesaid ballpark arsenic the modular Intel-powered MSI Claw 8 Plus, which Best Buy lists arsenic costing $999.99.