Acer has officially confirmed that the release of the Nitro Blaze mobile gaming PC will be delayed indefinitely. This is due to new tariffs on imports into the United States introduced by President Donald Trump. This was reported by VideoCardz. According to Acer representative, the new tax rate forces the company to focus on core products and review the production chain.
Nitro Blaze was first introduced at CES 2025. However, by 2026, the vendor came to the show without this new product. As Acer's Lisa Emard explains, the device's announcement came just before tariff restrictions were imposed, which forced the company to focus on laptops and look for manufacturing opportunities outside of China.
“We currently have no plans to release them anytime soon,” she said.
A similar situation happened with Zotac, which did not provide details about the launch of its Zone Pro mobile console, which was also absent from CES 2026.
Initially, Acer planned to start selling Nitro Blaze 8 and Nitro Blaze 11 in the second quarter of 2025 at a price starting from 999 USD (about 79,000 rubles at the exchange rate as of January 9, 2026, – Gazeta.Ru). In contrast, Zotac targeted October 2025. However, neither company has ever followed through on these plans, and new launch dates for these devices remain uncertain.
Before that, it turned out that because of AI, Nvidia was thinking of canceling the release of a new series of top video cards.
