Intel is constructing a handheld gaming platform together with a devoted chip

Intel is seeking to double down on gaming {hardware} with a brand new chip and platform for moveable gaming units.

The platform will embody {hardware} and software program, Intel vp and normal supervisor of PC merchandise, Daniel Rogers, introduced at CES on Monday. It might be constructed off of the corporate’s Intel Core Series 3 processors, often known as Panther Lake, which was introduced final yr and is now being rolled out in quite a lot of PCs.

This future platform features a chip particularly for handheld gaming units, in accordance with reporting from IGN, which was confirmed by TechCrunch.

These Panther Lake chips are the corporate’s first constructed on its 18A manufacturing course of, which began manufacturing in 2025.

Intel is not any stranger to the gaming trade and has been constructing chips for gaming PCs for the reason that Nineties. The firm leaned extra closely into gaming in 2022 with the discharge of its Intel Arc GPUs.

Entering the hand-held gaming area could be an fascinating growth, although, because the market is at the moment dominated by AMD. AMD simply introduced a brand new processor designed for gaming PCs, AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D, in its CES keynote on Monday, along with new ray tracing and graphics applied sciences for gaming.

Rogers mentioned Intel will share extra particulars about its new merchandise for handheld gaming units later this yr.

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