For my money the most exciting announcement of Computex 2026 so far has been the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ gaming handheld, which is among the first devices to hit the market powered by the new Intel Arc G3 Extreme processor. …
… Acer Swift 16 AI: Performance The Acer Swift 16 AI promises serious performance thanks to Intel’s Panther Lake hardware. With an Intel Core Ultra X7 358H and an Intel Arc B390 GPU , it should deliver amazing performance. …
… The Dell XPS 16’s inclusion of Intel Arc B390 graphics is a bonus in some respects, but also a step back in other ways. We can see clear uplift against earlier Intel Arc graphics as in the Acer Swift Go 16. …
… The driver covers the Intel Arc B-Series discrete graphics, the Intel Arc A-Series graphics, and the Intel Core Ultra processors with integrated Arc graphics inside. But Intel has an ally, Microsoft, which said last year that it, too, wants to precompile shaders. …
… It lags behind even the previous Intel Arc generation, which leapt dramatically with the new Intel Arc B390. …
… Both can either use the XMX cores inside the Intel Arc GPUs, or "fall back" to a more generic implementation that can be used on other CPUs and even GPUs. XMX inference on Panther Lake is about 3.4 times faster than the fallback method, Intel said. For now, this is a demo, Intel engineers said. …
… Configurable with up to 64GB of LPDDR5X memory and built-in Intel Arc graphics, this laptop has everything it needs to enhance multitasking for professionals. …