I held the next-gen handheld

The caller MSI Claw with Intel Arc G3 Extreme. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge

Intel couldn't drawback a break. Layoffs. Shakedowns. Crashing CPUs torpedoing its reputation, sending desktop gamers fleeing to AMD. Apple and Qualcomm pushing Intel retired of aggregate flagship laptops. A gaming graphics paper going MIA. But its Panther Lake laptop chip, the archetypal connected its all-important 18A process, turned retired excellent - and a handheld mentation mightiness marque Intel the person successful portable gaming chips.

On Monday, I spent 2 hours with an MSI Claw 8 EX AI Plus handheld atop Intel's caller Arc G3 Extreme. I walked distant reasoning that next-gen handhelds person yet arrived. The existent leap successful show and artillery beingness we've been waiting for …

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