Intel’s first handheld gaming chip is the Arc G3, and this Acer is using it

There’s a brand-new Intel spot underneath this render. | Image: Acer

Intel is hardly successful the handheld gaming PC abstraction - but that mightiness beryllium astir to change. After the embarrassment that was the archetypal MSI Claw and the excellent MSI Claw 8 AI Plus that followed it, Intel announced it would make custom handheld gaming chips. Today, it's formally announcing them arsenic the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme.

There's a batch we don't cognize astir the chips, but Intel's confirming contiguous that the Panther Lake variant contains 2 less CPU cores than Intel's Panther Lake laptop chips, but diagnostic a afloat compliment of Xe3 GPU cores to tally games. (They person 2 P-cores, 8 E-eores, and 4 LP E-cores, positive up to 12 Xe3 graphics cores successful t …

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