AYANEO is a Chinese company specializing in handheld computers and has just announced news for the AYANEO 2 and AYANEO Air, which in this case correspond to its line of portable consoles.

To begin with, the company has announced the shipment of the AYANEO Air starting this weekend to early buyers and media for review. This console is a model with an OLED screen and a Ryzen 5000 APU and comes as a cheap alternative to the Steam Deck.

AYANEO 2, in September

And it was the development of Valve that was a great catalyst for encouraging the segment of portable gaming machines. The second model for which we have news is located one category above. The manufacturer announced a market launch at the end of September and mass deliveries in October. And we like everything except what wasn’t announced, its price.

As you know if you follow us regularly, the AYANEO 2 stands out for its processor Ryzen 7 6800U who drives This is a very powerful processor of the ZEN 3 “Rembrandt” series for the machine at hand with its 8 cores and 16 threads, which can work with frequencies up to 4.7 GHz. This series also improves the performance of the graphics part with the chip RDNA2 with 12 computing units (50% more than Steam Deck) and the frequency increased up to 2.2 GHz.

The RAM will also be faster than the one used by Valve’s machine as it features LPDDR5-6400. It has PCIe 4.0 storage, a fingerprint reader and the premiere of a new USB4 port. Until now, the resolution and panel type of its 7-inch screen was not known, and the manufacturer revealed it: IPS with native FHD resolution which is a significant upgrade over the original model’s 720p.

No sale price was given, but it is believed to be it will be quite a bit more expensive than the Steam Deck. And it won’t be the last model from this manufacturer for 2022, as the AyaNeo Next 2 has already been announced, which will be its flagship and the first handheld machine to mount a dedicated graphics card, namely Arc Alchemist or Radeon 6000 depending on the hardware configuration based on Intel or AMD.

It also gets bigger compared to all previous consoles, including buttons and analog sticks, as well as touchpads similar to those on the Steam Deck. Its price will be stratospheric: according to Internet gossip, up to 1,500 dollars.