This is MSI’s new Claw 8 EX AI Plus gaming handheld
MSI has unveiled a new Claw 8 handheld gaming PC ahead of the Computex 2026 show, and this model swaps out its predecessors’ Intel Lunar Lake mobile chip for a specialized handheld processor. …
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Intel’s first handheld gaming chip is the Arc G3, and this Acer is using it
Intel is barely in the handheld gaming PC space — but that might be about to change. After the embarrassment that was the first MSI Claw and the excellent MSI Claw 8 AI Plus that followed it, Intel announced it would create custom handheld gaming chips. …
Valve confirms it’s working with Intel and Nvidia on SteamOS for more GPUs
MSI’s Intel-powered Claw gaming handhelds have so far mostly been Windows machines, meaning that anyone who picks one up has to deal with the crusty experience that is Windows on a handheld gaming PC. …
Computex 2026: All the news and announcements
… Nvidia unveiled RTX Spark, its first family of consumer PC chips, arriving in laptops and mini PCs starting this fall. Intel is launching two new custom chips made for handheld gaming devices, the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme, which will power the upcoming Acer Predator Atlas 8. …
The golden age of handheld gaming is already over
… Every other handheld gaming PC worth its salt costs even more than that now: the Lenovo Legion Go S is nearly double its launch price at a staggering $1,579.99, the Legion Go 2 costs nearly $2,000 with the same chip as the Xbox Ally X, and leaked retail listings suggest Intel’s new handheld platfor… …
I held the next-gen handheld
… Apple and Qualcomm pushing Intel out of multiple flagship laptops. A gaming graphics card going MIA. But its Panther Lake laptop chip, the first on its all-important 18A process, turned out excellent — and a handheld version might make Intel the leader in portable gaming chips. …
Microsoft’s DLSS competitor is now available on the Xbox Ally X handheld
… Microsoft and Asus are also adding “enhanced vibration” haptic feedback to the Xbox Ally devices to better match “what you expect across Xbox devices.” Finally, Microsoft is also improving the experience of a single library of games from a variety of different PC storefronts on the Xbox Ally device…
What’s next for Microsoft’s Surface PCs?
… Intel’s first handheld gaming chip is the Arc G3, and this Acer is using it. The Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme are Intel’s new custom handheld gaming chips. We don’t know a lot about these chips just yet, but Acer is using them in two variants of its new Atlas 8 handheld. …
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… Tom Warren Feb 23 Here’s what Xbox is working on for 2026 Tom Warren Feb 5 Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows Tom Warren Jan 29 Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft Tom Warren Jan 22 Microsoft is closing its employee library and cutting back on subscriptions Tom Warren … …
Nvidia announces RTX Spark as ‘the most efficient PC chip ever built’
… It wouldn’t comment on putting the Spark in gaming handhelds, like AMD did with its powerful Strix Halo. …
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