Watch: Intel’s Tom Petersen talks Arc G3 and handheld gaming at Computex

Intel’s new Arc G3 Extreme chipset may very well be a game-changer for handheld gaming PCs, and we acquired our first glimpse of how that’d be on the present ground at Computex 2026.

PCWorld’s Adam Patrick Murray was there in Taiwan all week trying out the way forward for PCs, and that included a fast chat with Intel Fellow Tom Petersen in regards to the gaming potential of the Arc G3 Extreme. Watch the complete interview within the video under:

Petersen is an skilled in optimizing video games for particular slices of silicon, and on this recorded chat he fills Adam in on how Intel has designed the Arc G3 Extreme for sustained high-performance computing in a chassis that’s skinny and light-weight sufficient to hold all day.

Of course, we received’t know for certain how the primary Arc G3 Extreme programs stand as much as the hype till we get some in ourselves for hands-on testing. Still, Intel claims a 42 % common efficiency benefit versus AMD’s Ryzen Z2 Extreme at comparable energy ranges.

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