If the RAMpocalypse doesn't price them into oblivion, the next generation of hot handheld gaming PCs could well be Intel-powered

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Although the AI-induced global memory crisis is currently doing its very best to wipe out the consumer PC market, that doesn't mean system vendors are giving up on releasing new products. In fact, we're just a month away from Computex, and you can be sure to see a whole raft of new desktops, laptops, and handheld gaming PCs. And in the case of the latter, the best ones could well have an Intel chip inside them.

That's if the latest PassMark benchmark result for the Intel Arc G3 Extreme is anything to go by, at least (via Wccftech). Never heard of that chip? Well, you've just joined a very large club, because it's not been officially announced yet, but essentially it's a Panther Lake processor that has a top-of-the-class graphics tile, but a retake-the-year compute tile.

More specifically, you're looking at a chip that has a 12 Xe core Arc B390 iGPU, which is Read Entire Article