MSI reveals its first AMD-powered Claw handheld, featuring the Ryzen Z2 Extreme

What just happened? MSI is no longer exclusively using Intel's chips for its Claw series of PC gaming handhelds. The company has announced a new version of the Claw 8, and it features an AMD Ryzen APU. The firm also revealed an updated version of the Intel-powered Claw 8 AI+. MSI showed off the Claw A8 BZ2EM at Computex 2025. Note that the Ryzen Z2 Extreme it uses is different from the Ryzen Z2 Go found in the Legion Go S, which offers lower performance than the Z1 Extreme. Credit: PCWorld MSI's first Ryzen-powered handheld packs an 8-inch, 1,200p (16:10) LCD screen with a 120Hz refresh rate, 100% sRGB coverage, and 500 nits of typical brightness. MSI says there will be "up to 24GB" of DDR5x-8000 RAM, which is less than the 32GB found in the Lunar Lake-powered MSI Claw 8 AI+. The Claw A8 BZ2EM, which follows MSI's trend of using catchy, memorable names, also has a single PCIe 4 x4 M.2 slot for storage, a fingerprint reader, a MicroSD card reader, and two USB Type-C/Thunderbolt 4 po ... Read full article.