Huawei officially introduced the MateBook Fold PC 2026 on August 5, its latest foldable laptop built around the company’s newly developed Kirin X90 Plus processor.

The chipmaker says the new silicon delivers a 25 percent overall performance boost over the previous generation, a jump the company is positioning as central to the device’s pitch to professionals who want a full laptop that folds down to tablet size.

The MateBook Fold carries an 18-inch foldable display using a 3.3K dual-layer OLED panel, paired with what Huawei calls a Basalt waterdrop hinge designed to reduce crease visibility when the screen is unfolded. The panel also uses an ultra-thin glass laminate Huawei brands as UTG fluid laminate.

Huawei has added stylus support for the first time on this model, letting users take handwritten notes or draw directly on the unfolded display. The laptop ships in three colorways: white, beige and black.

On the software and memory side, Huawei is pairing the new chip with what it calls Ultra Space Memory and Ark Engine acceleration, features aimed at keeping multitasking smooth across the large foldable canvas.

Pricing for the 2026 model has not been disclosed. For context, the original MateBook Fold launched in May 2025 at roughly 24,000 yuan, about $3,400, for the 1TB storage configuration, rising to about 27,000 yuan, near $3,900, for the 2TB version.

The launch places Huawei among a small group of PC makers, including Lenovo and Asus, pushing foldable laptop hardware into the mainstream market, even as adoption of the form factor remains limited by high prices and lingering questions about long-term hinge durability.

Huawei has leaned on foldable hardware as a differentiator against Western PC brands that remain locked out of some Chinese enterprise contracts, and the MateBook Fold line has become a flagship showcase for the company’s in-house Kirin chip program since it resumed advanced silicon development in recent years.