Anker Soundcore, the former audio and video division of Anker Innovations (now called only Anker), unveiled its latest product lineup at IFA 2026 in Berlin, Germany. Addressing the main market trends with nine new products, Anker also unveiled its latest proprietary THUS AI chip, which now powers ultra-clear calls and adaptive noise control across four new models spanning open-ear, over-ear, and in-ear form factors. Additionally, Anker will enter the OTC hearing aid market with a new product based on the new AI audio chip, expected to launch later in 2026.
The main announcement connecting the latest Anker Soundcore products is the new THUS AI chip, which already powers four new products, each tuned to a specific listening scenario with AI-driven call clarity and noise control.
Now adding Anker’s THUS AI audio chip, the AeroClip 2 Pro becomes the first open-earclip earbuds from the brand featuring a powerful, built-in AI note-taking feature. With one-tap recording, the AeroClip 2 Pro earclip earbuds capture conversations during in-person and online meetings, as well as adding the ability to record both sides of a conversation during a phone call.
Once completed, using the Soundcore App, users can easily and securely transfer recordings onto a phone or tablet, then access an AI LLM to create a complete summary of the meeting using multiple templates. Whether it’s the next day or six months later, the AeroClip 2 Pro also allows users to easily search for items from a past meeting and quickly retrieve that information.
Featuring the new THUS AI audio chip, the AeroClip 2 Pro earbuds deliver ultra-clear calls in noisy settings, pairing with a six-sensor array that includes four high-SNR microphones and two bone-conduction sensors to isolate speech from background noise. With their Ergo-Fit design and an ear clip form factor, the AeroClip 2 Pro features an open acoustic architecture with an 11mm dual-diaphragm driver and LDAC support for Hi-Res audio. Additionally, the earbuds will offer 10 hours of playback (at 50% volume), with 30 hours total in the charging case. Dropping the ear clips into the case for 10 minutes will provide up to three hours of additional playback.
Also joining the AeroClip line are the second-generation, AeroClip 2 open-ear, clip earbuds which also utilize Anker’s THUS AI chip to help isolate a user’s voice during phone calls, ensuring the clearest calls in this form factor. Like the AeroClip 2 Pro, the AeroClip 2 will offer users an Ergo-Fit design in an ear clip form factor for all-day comfort, tested against 2,000 ear profiles. Using a 12mm dynamic driver with LDAC in an ear clip design, and with 8 hours of playtime and 32 hours in the case, this device delivers a comfortable, all-day listening experience. Additionally, the AeroClip 2 offers real-time AI translation with Apple MFi certification, enabling one-tap access on iOS.
ANC Headphones and TWS Earbuds
For users that prefer over-ear headphones, the new Anker Space 2 Pro builds on the success of the Space One Pro with an elegant over-ear design, while adding Anker’s THUS AI chip with significantly improved ANC performance, including offering the clearest calls for the other party. Combined with the THUS chip, the Space 2 Pro includes a six-microphone array that isolates a user’s voice from complex background noises up to 100dB, such as walking by a construction site with a jackhammer, or an emergency vehicle siren.
The same chip powers the headphones’ eight-microphone adaptive ANC with 384kHz processing to target office noise such as chatter, keyboard clatter, and air-conditioning hum. A 35mm rigid-flex dual-material diaphragm, paired with HearID 5.0 personalized calibration, and LDAC compatibility delivers Hi-Res audio, allowing for full, rich, deep bass, effortless highs, while isolating vocals to shine.
The Space 2 Pro headphones offer 60 hours of playback (at 50% volume) with ANC turned off or 30 hours with ANC turned on, as well as plush, comfortable memory foam ear cups for multiple days of all-day usage. They also feature Bluetooth 6.1, two-device multipoint connectivity, and spatial audio.
The final product featuring the new AI audio chip in the Anker 2026 lineup is the new Anker Soundcore Liberty Buds 2, which combine Anker’s THUS AI chip with an eight-sensor solution — including two voice-processing units — for whisper-clear calls in any environment. A six-microphone ANC system delivers double the noise reduction of previous models, while a Comfort ANC mode is designed to help users avoid ear pressure discomfort. The Liberty Buds 2 have been certified by TÜV for design and comfort.
Anker Entering OTC Hearing Aid Market
Anker will also introduce a new pair of OTC hearing aids, launching later in 2026, and powered by Anker’s THUS AI chip. According to the manufacturer, this device is engineered to solve the biggest frustration among hearing aid users: understanding voices in noisy places, including crowded restaurants, at family gatherings, and other social events.
While traditional hearing aids often amplify all sound around a user, Anker’s hearing aids take a different approach. Powered by the THUS AI chip running 7.2 billion operations per second, and combined with four beam-forming microphones, the hearing aids pinpoint the voice that matters while background noise quietly fades away.
Utilizing Anker’s knowledge and experience in charging, the upcoming model is expected to have 12 hours of usage with 36 hours total in the charging case. Dropping the hearing aids into the case will also allow for fast charging. Five minutes of charging will create two additional hours of usage, the fastest in the industry.
Anker says that additional details, including pricing and launch timing, will be announced in the coming months. The first product to be launch looks like traditional behind the ear hearing aids, but when questioned, Anker product managers confirm the intention to release more form-factors including designs that look exactly like consumer earbuds.
Anker Sleep Portfolio
One important application segment for Anker is sleep-focused products. Already the focus in 2025, Anker reinforced the product portfolio at IFA 2026 with four products in its sleep-focused audio line: two new sleep earbuds and for the first time, two dedicated sleep speakers.
Unlike most sleep trackers on the market that simply tell users about their sleep patterns when they wake up, the new Anker Sleep 4 Pro uses high-frequency in-ear PPG monitoring to fully understand a user’s sleep patterns throughout the night. This includes tracking heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV) to assess the stages of relaxation and sleep. To help facilitate relaxation into sleep, the Sleep Earbuds 4 Pro will play adaptive soothing audio tracks using Soundcore’s BioSync feature.
Thanks to its newly redesigned wireless charging case with built-in AMOLED display screen, the Sleep 4 Pro uses noise reduction, specifically engineered for sleep, as well as adaptive snore masking, to help minimize disruptive noises. Using the built-in display, users can manage audio and sleep settings, set alarms as well as view a sleep summary report each morning. With a compact and slim design, the Sleep 4 Pro will be available for $349 in the US
The second new model of sleep earbuds, Sleep 4 builds on the success of the existing Anker Sleep A30 with enhanced noise reduction engineered for sleep and an AI-generated dynamic snore masking system that adapts audio to real-time snoring patterns. Engineered from a database of more than 10,000 samples of users’ ears, the Sleep 4 earbuds’ compact design is 20 percent slimmer than the Sleep A30, helping to avoid pressure for side sleepers.
The new Anker Soundcore SleepLab Pro Bedside Sleep System replaces many of the functions of sleep earbuds, watches, or rings, without the need to wear a device. Utilizing 60GHz mmWave radar, the SleepLab Pro can sense a user’s sleep cycle without direct body contact, while providing a personalized “sleep soundtrack” as well as lighting cues to help users sleep better.
Offering calming breathing exercises, acoustic beats, and a daily sleep report, combined with spatial audio from dual drivers and multi-color ambient lighting designed for the bedroom, with a science-backed sunrise simulation for a gradual wake-up, the SleepLab Pro is ideal for anyone that wants to sleep better and doesn’t want to have anything on their ears.
Finally, the SleepLab bedside speaker simplifies the experience, allowing users to stream music, podcasts, and personal audio as well as more than 180 science-backed white-noise and breathing sounds in a phone-free, one-tap design. The SleepLab uses dual speakers to deliver spatial sound while soft, warm multi-color lighting syncs to the audio, and a sunrise simulation with a crescendo alarm and battery backup helps users wake up in a gentle, yet reliable manner.
A Single Brand
Almost 15 years after selling its first battery product, Anker Innovations also announced that its five brands will be unified under a single name, Anker. The company also announced the opening of its first standalone store in Berlin, to reinforce the launch of the new products across charging, audio, home security, robotics, and home energy.
Since its founding in 2011, Anker has grown from a charging company into a global consumer technology company available in over 180 countries and regions. Along the way, it built dedicated brands to move faster in distinct categories: Anker for charging, eufy for the smart home, soundcore for audio and entertainment, SOLIX for energy, and eufyMake for creative tools. Each built a strong following, but the brand recognition was always associated with Anker.
According to the Chinese electronics manufacturer, as AI, robotics, local computing, and connected systems bring once-separate technologies closer together, the boundaries between those categories are disappearing. For that reason, Anker is bringing its products and technologies together under one brand to match.
“Category brands made sense when categories were separate. They no longer are,” said Steven Yang, founder and CEO of Anker Innovations. “One brand, one promise – Ultimate Innovation, now unified across everything we make.”
Consolidation also concentrates the company’s brand investment. Anker will now present its products in two groups. Anker For You is the technology that moves through the day with the user, covering charging, audio, personal health, and creative tools. Anker for Home is for home security, robotics, and home energy. The change will be gradual. New products lead the move to the Anker brand, and existing products transition over time.
To reinforce the IFA 2026 presence, Anker will open its first standalone retail store in Berlin on Saturday, Sept. 5. At the store, everything Anker makes is arranged around real life rather than by product category. Anker products are typically sold across separate departments in retail, and until now, under separate brand names. Trained Anker ambassadors will demonstrate products across categories, so a customer can see a hub, a camera, and a robot vacuum working together as a single setup rather than as three separate purchases.
“Opening our first standalone Anker store in Germany, here on Berlin’s iconic Ku’damm, is a very special milestone for us,” said Steven Yang, founder and CEO of Anker Innovations. “We have spent nearly 15 years building products that solve real problems for consumers. Now, for the first time, people can experience the full Anker portfolio together in one place and see how those products increasingly work together. It is an exciting way to bring the new, unified Anker brand closer to our customers.”
In the store, visitors will be able to preview the new Anker MindBase, an advanced local AI hub and Anker’s answer to bringing the truly autonomous home to life. The core of a complete home ecosystem, it connects the devices across a home, runs the AI that makes decisions locally and stores the household’s data locally, all in a single system. This product is complemented with EasyOmni Link to connect Anker devices and Matter-compatible products from other brands into one home system, working alongside Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Home Assistant.
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