You’ll find them in newer devices like the Acer Predator Atlas 8.
Despite the blow to the category from yesterday’s Steam Deck price hike, Intel isn’t ready to give up on gaming handhelds just yet. Today at Computex, Intel unveiled its new Arch G-series chips, a family of hardware built on its existing Core Ultra 3 lineup. The Arc G3 and G3 Extreme chips will feature up to Intel’s Arc B390 GPU, giving them real-time ray tracing and AI upscaling capabilities from the company’s XESS3 technology. Intel says the chips will appear in devices in the coming months, including the Acer Predator Atlas 8, MSI Claw 8 EX AI+, and OnePlus 7.
The company has not yet provided many technical details on the Arch G-series chips, but broadly speaking, they will have two performance cores, eight efficiency cores, and four low-power efficiency cores. Since these are essentially modified versions of the Core Ultra 3 chips, they will also be built on Intel’s new 18A process. You can expect to see support for Wi-Fi 7 R2, Thunderbolt 4, and dual Bluetooth 6 connectivity.
As for features, Intel says the chips will be optimized for Windows 11’s full-screen Xbox mode. This means you should hopefully spend less time dealing with the standard Windows interface, which is extremely clunky on handhelds. The company also says “selected” games will launch faster using Intel Precompiled Shaders, which delivers optimized shaders from the cloud rather than rendering on your device. Supported games currently include Black Myth: Wukong, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and 7as well as the outside world 2.
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