{"id":471742,"date":"2026-05-28T18:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471742\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T18:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:52:13","slug":"intel-makes-a-bid-for-handheld-gaming-pcs-with-new-arc-g3-processors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471742\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel makes a bid for handheld gaming PCs with new Arc G3 processors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of the Steam Deck imitators on the market right now use AMD silicon, specifically the Ryzen Z-series chips. These are the same chips AMD makes for regular laptops, but with different power settings better suited to a compact handheld system. There are handhelds based on Intel silicon (MSI\u2019s Claw<\/a> is the main one), but Intel hasn\u2019t yet tried making silicon marketed specifically for that purpose.<\/p>\n

Today, the company is throwing its hat in the ring with two Intel Arc G-series processors, which will allow gaming handhelds to leverage the company\u2019s genuinely quite good<\/a> Arc B-series integrated GPUs. Intel says that several Arc G-series handhelds will arrive \u201cstarting in June 2026, with broader availability throughout the year.\u201d These systems will include a new MSI Claw model, a Predator Atlas 8<\/a> from Acer, and a device from OneXPlayer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Intel normally uses its \u201cArc\u201d branding for integrated and dedicated GPUs, but in this case, the \u201cArc\u201d brand encompasses the entire chip, including the CPU, GPU, NPU, and other components.<\/p>\n

The G-series chips are similar in many ways to the Core Ultra Series 3 chips<\/a> (codenamed Panther Lake) that Intel is currently shipping in high-end thin-and-light laptops. They use the same CPU and GPU architectures and make use of Intel\u2019s 18A manufacturing process (among others). But they ship with a slightly different combination of CPU and GPU cores that doesn\u2019t quite match up with any of the Core Ultra processors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most of the Steam Deck imitators on the market right now use AMD silicon, specifically the Ryzen Z-series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-471742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}