Author: Sean Hollister
There’s a brand-new Intel chip underneath this render. | Image: Acer
Intel is barely in the handheld gaming PC space - but that might be about to change. After the embarrassment that was the first MSI Claw and the excellent MSI Claw 8 AI Plus that followed it, Intel announced it would create custom handheld gaming chips. Today, it's formally announcing them as the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme.
There's a lot we don't know about the chips, which are rumored to have two fewer CPU cores than Intel's Panther Lake laptop chips, but feature a full compliment of Xe3 GPU cores to run games. (We've heard we may get more details from Intel shortly, and I'll add them to this story if so.)
But we do already know that they …
Read the full story at The Verge.
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There’s a brand-new Intel chip underneath this render. | Image: Acer
Intel is barely in the handheld gaming PC space - but that might be about to change. After the embarrassment that was the first MSI Claw and the excellent MSI Claw 8 AI Plus that followed it, Intel announced it would create custom handheld gaming chips. Today, it's formally announcing them as the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme.
There's a lot we don't know about the chips, which are rumored to have two fewer CPU cores than Intel's Panther Lake laptop chips, but feature a full compliment of Xe3 GPU cores to run games. (We've heard we may get more details from Intel shortly, and I'll add them to this story if so.)
But we do already know that they …
Read the full story at The Verge.
Continue reading...