MSI's New Nintendo Switch 2 Rival Is Official – Here Are 3 Reasons Why I'm Excited About the AMD-Powered Claw A8

MSI’s new Claw A8 is powered by AMD

MSI has taken the wraps off a new Claw A8 at Computex 2025. The PC gaming handheld comes with a Ryzen Z2 Extreme chip and up to 24GB of DDR5 memory.

MSI's new Nintendo Switch 2 rival is official – here are 3 reasons why I'm excited about the AMD-powered Claw A8

MSI has officially unveiled its new Claw A8 handheld gaming PC, alongside a new Claw 8 AI+ Polar Tempest Edition, at Computex 2025.

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MSI's Claw A8 handheld supports AMD and Intel inside. Here's how

Intel or AMD? It’s a big choice for PC gamers, but if you want a handheld, only one company will let you choose. With the new Claw A8, MSI is the only major vendor that’s offering handheld gaming PCs with guts from the blue and red teams. At Computex, Adam Patrick Murray cornered MSI Product Management Director Cliff Chun to talk about it. Though the body is more angular, the newer version of the Claw is broadly similar to the existing Claw 8 AI…

MSI announces new Claw models with Intel and AMD chips

MSI has announced new models in its Claw series of Windows-based handheld gaming consoles. This time, the company is leaving no stone unturned and launching models with both Intel and AMD chips. The unimaginatively named Claw A8 AI+ A2VM and its white version, the Claw A8 AI+ Polar Tempest Edition A2VM (henceforth referred to as just A8 AI+ for the sake of everyone's sanity), are the models with the Intel chip. The A8 AI+ actually uses the same …

The Taiwanese PC manufacturer MSI uses its home trade fair Computex 2025 to present the first in-house handheld gaming PC, which uses an AMD platform unlike its predecessor models. The MSI Claw A8 is the first model with AMD's new Ryzen Z2 Extreme APU. (Read more)