Ayaneo has officially launched Next 2, its newest Windows gaming handheld, following initial announcements and teasers from last year. The device succeeds the original Ayaneo Next, which was introduced in early 2022. It features a redesigned chassis with larger grips, and it is equipped with a 9.06-inch OLED display with a resolution of 2400 × 1504. The panel supports switchable refresh rates of 60 Hz, 120 Hz, 144 Hz, and 165 Hz, along with up to 1155 nits peak brightness, 5280 Hz PWM dimming, and full DCI-P3 color coverage.

On the hardware side, the handheld is available with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 or Ryzen AI Max 385 processors. The Ryzen AI Max+ 395 is a 16-core, 32-thread processor based on AMD Zen 5 "Strix Halo" architecture, manufactured on TSMC 4 nm process, with boost clocks up to 5.1 GHz. Graphics are handled by the integrated Radeon 8060S GPU based on RDNA 3.5 with 40 compute units clocked up to 2.9 GHz. The chip also integrates an XDNA 2 NPU for up to 126 TOPS of AI performance.