Intel is building a handheld gaming platform including a dedicated chip

In Brief

Intel is looking to treble down connected gaming hardware with a caller spot and level for portable gaming devices.

The level volition see hardware and software, Intel vice president and wide manager of PC products, Daniel Rogers, announced astatine CES connected Monday. It volition beryllium built disconnected of the company’s Intel Core Series 3 processors, known arsenic Panther Lake, which was announced past twelvemonth and is present being rolled retired successful a assortment of PCs.

This aboriginal level includes a spot specifically for handheld gaming devices, according to reporting from IGN, which was confirmed by TechCrunch.

These Panther Lake chips are the company’s archetypal built connected its 18A manufacturing process which started accumulation successful 2025.

Intel is nary alien to the gaming manufacture and has been gathering chips for gaming PCs since the 90s. The institution leaned much heavy into gaming successful 2022 with the merchandise of its Intel Arc GPUs.

Entering the handheld gaming abstraction would beryllium an absorbing development, though, arsenic the marketplace is presently dominated by AMD. AMD conscionable announced a caller processor designed for gaming PCs, AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D, successful its CES keynote connected Monday, successful summation to caller ray tracing and graphics technologies for gaming.

Rogers said Intel volition stock much details astir its caller products for handheld gaming devices aboriginal this year.

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