Intel is planning a customized Panther Lake CPU for handheld PCs

Intel introduced yesterday that it’s creating a complete “handheld gaming platform” powered by its new Panther Lake chips, and becoming a member of an more and more aggressive discipline. Qualcomm is hinting about potential Home windows gaming handhelds exhibiting up on the Recreation Builders Convention in March, and AMD’s new Strix Halo chips may result in extra highly effective handhelds.

In response to IGN and TechCrunch, sources say Intel goes to compete by creating a customized Intel Core G3 “variant or variants” only for handhelds that might outperform the Arc B390 GPU on the chips it simply introduced. IGN studies that through the use of the brand new 18A course of, Intel can lower totally different die slices, and “spec the chips to supply higher efficiency on the GPU the place you need it.”

As for concrete particulars concerning the gaming platform, we’re going to have to attend. In response to Intel’s Dan Rogers yesterday, the corporate could have “extra information to share on that from our {hardware} and software program companions later this yr.” The Intel-based MSI Claw noticed a marked enchancment when it jumped to Lunar Lake, and hopefully the brand new platform retains up that optimistic pattern.