AMD just unveiled its new mobile Ryzen AI 400 CPU lineup at CES just a few days ago and promised to release those products in first quarter of this year. Unlike a proper next-gen offering, Gorgon Point is for all intents and purposes just a refreshed Ryzen AI 300 series with minor tweaks. And now we know that it's coming perhaps even sooner than expected — on January 22 — according to a new etail listing in China.
ASUS's AMD Ryzen AI 400 LaptopCST 2026/01/22 21:00 pic.twitter.com/NsRuJ9RNwLJanuary 13, 2026
The first listing to show a Gorgon Point launch date comes from Asus' official store on JD, a large retailer in the region. The product page is for a Lingyao 16 Air laptop that will go up for sale on January 22. Its specs show a Ryzen AI 7 445 SoC, along with 32 GB of memory and a terabyte of storage. It also has a 2.8K OLED display with a peak brightness of 1,100 nits and a 120 Hz refresh rate. Owing to its Air name, the laptop only weighs 990 grams.
Overall, the device looks impressive, but the processor is the interesting bit here. Despite being called the Ryzen AI "7" 445, this is AMD's first-ever Ryzen 7-branded SKU to deviate from an 8-core config. We're looking at a 6-core/12-thread SKU with a boost clock of 4.6 GHz, just 14 MB of L3 cache, 4 RDNA 3.5 Compute Units, and up to 50 TOPS of AI compute enabled by the XDNA 2 NPU.
Asus to launch a 豆 14 Air 2026 in China on January 22🟢Ryzen AI 7 445 + 32G + 1T🟢14-inch 2.8K 120Hz OLED🟢990g pic.twitter.com/VcpvkZV1KEJanuary 13, 2026
Another bit of marketing material for an Asus adol 14 Air 2026 system, revealed by Chinese X user @realVictor_M, has surfaced with the same CPU on its spec sheet. The leaked material doesn't appear to show a launch date directly, but @realVictor_M claims the same January 22 release.
Intel has set Panther Lake systems to launch just five days after Ryzen AI 400's supposed release date, on January 27, which likely means that AMD doesn't want to compete head-to-head for the same release day. That only makes sense given what's likely to be a massive push on Intel's part.
AMD is also set to bring Ryzen AI 400 to desktop systems, replacing Ryzen 9000G as the company's new mainstream desktop APU family. The name change reflects the fact that this is the first time an NPU will be included on a desktop Ryzen processor. Intel hasn't yet announced new desktop processors for 2026, so AMD will at least have the niche of (somewhat) gaming-ready integrated graphics on the desktop to itself for the time being.
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