The first notebooks featuring AMD’s latest chip for mobile devices are expected to be available as early as January 22.
At CES 2026, which just came to a close, AMD unveiled its new Ryzen AI 400 chip family. The latest generation follows the Ryzen AI 300 series, which AMD shipped without Windows 10 support at the time. At CES 2026, AMD set the launch date for the new chips for the first quarter of 2026. A leak from Asia could now reveal when the first notebooks with the new chips will go on sale.
Sales launch on January 22
The AMD Ryzen AI 7 445 SoC chip is mentioned twice on X.
X user Ruby-Rapids shows a screenshot of the official Asus dealer on the Chinese trading platform JD. The Lingyao 16 Air laptop is said to be equipped with a Ryzen AI 7 445 SoC, 32 gigabytes of RAM, and one terabyte of storage.
ASUS’s AMD Ryzen AI 400 Laptop
CST 2026/01/22 21:00 pic.twitter.com/NsRuJ9RNwL
— Ruby_Rapids (@RubyRapids) January 13, 2026
The 2.8K OLED screen offers a maximum brightness of 1,100 nits and a refresh rate of 120 Hz. According to the screenshot, the launch date will be January 22, 2026. Interested parties can pre-order the notebook from retailers starting January 13.
Also on X, user realVictor_M shows a press photo of the Asus Adol 14 Air 2026 notebook. It offers an identical configuration and thus also a new Ryzen AI 400 chip.
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/VcpvkZV1KE— 孤城Hardware (@realVictor_M) January 13, 2026
No date is shown in the image, but the user states that Asus will also be selling this laptop from January 22.
It is also unclear whether the date given marks the start of sales in China only or in other regions as well.
Intel follows with Panther Lake five days later
If the information is correct, the first AMD laptops with the new chips will be on retailers’ shelves five days before Intel.
Intel plans to release the first Panther Lake systems on January 27. While AMD’s new chip is a refresh of the 300 series, Intel’s Panther Lake is expected to offer significant performance gains over its predecessors, according to initial test reports.
Benchmarks will show how AMD’s new chips will perform in comparison.
