Anker Soundcore is putting a new in-house chip into nearly everything it makes, four earbuds and headphones models built around clearer calls, plus a four-product sleep lineup that includes the brand's first two dedicated bedside speakers. Nine products in total, all announced at once at IFA Berlin.
What's new
The THUS AI chip is the thread running through four new models: the AeroClip 2 Pro and AeroClip 2 (open-ear clip earbuds), the Space 2 Pro (over-ear headphones), and the Liberty Buds 2 (in-ear earbuds). All four use the chip alongside multi-microphone arrays to isolate a user's voice from background noise during calls, with the Space 2 Pro's six-microphone system rated to cut through noise up to 100dB. The AeroClip 2 Pro goes further with built-in AI note-taking, one-tap recording of meetings or calls that gets transcribed and summarized afterward, searchable months later.
Anker is also entering OTC hearing aids for the first time, using the same THUS chip (running 7.2 billion operations per second) paired with four beam-forming microphones to isolate the voice a wearer is trying to hear from surrounding noise, rather than just amplifying everything equally. The company is citing a five-minute charge for two hours of use as an industry-fastest claim.
On the sleep side, the Sleep 4 and Sleep 4 Pro build on Anker's existing sleep earbuds line, and the SleepLab and SleepLab Pro mark the company's first dedicated bedside sleep speakers, using 60GHz radar to track sleep cycles without requiring a wearable at all.
Why it matters
Clear calls in noisy environments is one of the most common earbud complaints, and Anker is betting a dedicated chip beats software noise cancellation alone across its entire lineup at once rather than one flagship model. The hearing aid move is the bigger long-term story: OTC hearing aids are a fast-growing category, and Anker entering with beam-forming microphone tech built for noisy-room listening targets the exact scenario traditional hearing aids struggle with most.
Key details
- AeroClip 2 Pro: open-ear clip design, THUS AI chip, one-tap AI meeting recording and summarization, 11mm dual-diaphragm driver, LDAC, 10 hours playback (30 with case), pricing and launch timing TBC
- AeroClip 2: open-ear clip, THUS AI chip, real-time AI translation (Apple MFi certified), 12mm driver, 8 hours playback (32 with case), $169.99 US / £159.99 UK / €179.99 EU, available week of September 22
- Space 2 Pro: over-ear ANC headphones, six-microphone array (100dB noise isolation), 35mm driver, LDAC, Bluetooth 6.1, 60 hours playback (30 with ANC on), $199.99 US, available September 22, UK/EU pricing TBC
- Liberty Buds 2: in-ear earbuds, eight-sensor array, six-microphone ANC (2x previous models), TÜV-certified comfort, $129.99 US / £129.99 UK / €149.99 EU, available September 22
- OTC hearing aids: THUS AI chip (7.2 billion ops/sec), four beam-forming microphones, 12 hours use (36 with case), 5-minute charge for 2 hours use, launching later this year, pricing TBC
- Sleep Earbuds 4 Pro: in-ear PPG heart rate/HRV monitoring, AMOLED display charging case, adaptive snore masking, $349 US, available November
- Sleep Earbuds 4: 20% slimmer than Sleep A30, AI-generated dynamic snore masking, $229 US / £229 UK / €229 EU, available October
- SleepLab Pro: 60GHz radar sleep sensing (no wearable needed), personalized sleep soundtrack, sunrise wake simulation, pricing/timing TBC
- SleepLab: dual-speaker spatial sound, 180+ white-noise and breathing tracks, sunrise alarm with battery backup, pricing/timing TBC
Takeaway
Anker is spreading one chip across its entire audio range at once rather than reserving it for a flagship, and the OTC hearing aid entry is the detail worth watching longer-term, it's a genuinely different market than earbuds and headphones, built around the same noisy-room problem Anker's betting the whole lineup on solving.
