AYANEO and GPD's new clamshell gaming handhelds feature AMD's new Hawk Point APU

AYANEO has just announced the world's first dual-screen 8840U handheld with the introduction of its new AYANEO Flip handheld. Inside, it's powered by the new AMD Ryzen 7 8840U "Hawk Point" APU. Check it out:

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The new AYANEO Flip handheld is a spiritual successor to the super-successful Nintendo DS handheld, where AYANEO has gone with a clamshell design that features a screen hiding alongside a full-sized keyboard (KB variant) or another, but smaller secondary screen (DS variant, get it... Nintendo DS).

AYANEO says that the new Flip handheld series offers both the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U and Ryzen 7 8840U APUs, with both of the APUs fitting into the same socket, featuring near-identical silicon, and virtually the same specifications. Although the Ryzen 7 8840U variant is the "Hawk Point" APU that AMD just announced, which packs an enhanced XDNA1 AI processor... it won't do much inside of the Flip handheld, that is.

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The other handheld here is the new GPD WIN Mini handheld, which features a clamshell design like the AYANEO Flip handheld. Inside of these systems, we have the Ryzen 7 8840U "Hawk Point" APU. GPD has also said that the WIN Mini, WIN 4 2023, and WIN Max 2 2023 will all be upgraded simultaneously.

ITHome also reports that alongside the new WIN Mini being upgraded to the Ryzen 7 8840U APU, it will "also receive a major hardware update". We should expect the updated models with the R7 8840U APU in Q1 2024, so there's only a few more months to wait.