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Acer Puts AI Across the Lineup at IFA 2025 With Ultralight Swift Air 16 and Predator Helios 18P

EMEA launch windows are set, with U.S. pricing unannounced.

Overview

  • The Swift Air 16 debuts as a Copilot+ PC using AMD Ryzen AI 300 chips, weighing as little as 2.18 pounds with a 50Wh battery rated up to about 13 hours, and ships in EMEA in November starting at €999.
  • The Chromebook Plus Spin 514 becomes Acer’s first MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910 Chromebook with an on‑device NPU (up to 50 TOPS) and Google AI features, starting at $699.99 in North America with September–October availability.
  • Acer’s Predator Helios 18P AI pairs up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, offers Intel vPro and up to 192GB of ECC memory, includes a 4K 120Hz Mini LED panel, and has EU pricing with U.S. details to follow.
  • The refreshed Nitro V 16 and V 16S target mainstream gamers with up to an Intel Core 9 270H and RTX 5070 Laptop GPU, priced from $999.99 and $1,099.99 in North America with October and November launches respectively.
  • Beyond laptops, Acer showed Predator Orion desktops with RTX 50‑series GPUs, high‑refresh and OLED monitors, new Chromebox models, tablets, and a Wi‑Fi 7 router, with several products set for staggered regional rollouts.