Intel’s first handheld gaming chip is the Arc G3, and this Acer is using it

Sebastian Ujică

Intel is barely in the handheld gaming PC space — but that might be about to change. After the embarrassment that was the first MSI Claw and the excellent MSI Claw 8 AI Plus that followed it, Intel announced it would create custom handheld gaming chips . Today, it’s formally announcing them as the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme. There’s a lot we don’t know about the chips, which are rumored to have two fewer CPU cores than Intel’s Panther Lake laptop chips, but feature a full compliment of Xe3 GPU