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- PCWorld interviewed Intel Fellow Tom Petersen at Computex 2026 about Intel’s new Arc G3 Extreme chipset designed for handheld gaming PCs.
- Intel claims the Arc G3 Extreme delivers a 42% performance advantage over AMD’s competing Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor.
- The chipset targets sustained high performance in thin and light portable devices, potentially revolutionizing the handheld gaming market.
Intel’s new Arc G3 Extreme chipset could be a game-changer for handheld gaming PCs, and we got our first glimpse of how that’d be on the show floor at Computex 2026.
PCWorld’s Adam Patrick Murray was there in Taiwan all week checking out the future of PCs, and that included a quick chat with Intel Fellow Tom Petersen about the gaming potential of the Arc G3 Extreme. Watch the full interview in the video below:
Petersen is an expert in optimizing games for specific slices of silicon, and in 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 thin and light enough to carry all day.
Of course, we won’t know for sure how the first Arc G3 Extreme systems stand up to the hype until we get some in ourselves for hands-on testing. Still, Intel claims a 42 percent average performance advantage versus AMD’s Ryzen Z2 Extreme at similar power levels.
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