Intel is seeking to double down on gaming hardware with a brand new chip and platform for portable gaming devices.
The platform will include hardware and software, Intel vp and general manager of PC products, Daniel Rogers, announced at CES on Monday. It’ll be built off of the corporate’s Intel Core Series 3 processors, generally known as Panther Lake, which was announced last 12 months and is now being rolled out in a wide range of PCs.
This future platform features a chip specifically for handheld gaming devices, in response to reporting from IGN, which was confirmed by TechCrunch.
These Panther Lake chips are the corporate’s first built on its 18A manufacturing process, which began production in 2025.
Intel is not any stranger to the gaming industry and has been constructing chips for gaming PCs because the Nineties. The corporate leaned more heavily into gaming in 2022 with the discharge of its Intel Arc GPUs.
Entering the hand held gaming space can be an interesting development, though, because the market is currently dominated by AMD. AMD just announced a brand new processor designed for gaming PCs, AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D, in its CES keynote on Monday, along with recent ray tracing and graphics technologies for gaming.
Rogers said Intel will share more details about its recent products for handheld gaming devices later this 12 months.
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