{"id":2983,"date":"2026-06-02T23:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/i-held-the-next-gen-handheld\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:56:02","slug":"i-held-the-next-gen-handheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/i-held-the-next-gen-handheld\/","title":{"rendered":"I held the next-gen handheld"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"The new MSI Claw with Intel Arc G3 Extreme. | Photo by Sean Hollister \/ The Verge\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo by Sean Hollister \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/msi-claw-g3-extreme-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tThe new MSI Claw with Intel Arc G3 Extreme. | Photo by Sean Hollister \/ The Verge\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Intel couldn&rsquo;t catch a break. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/713388\/intel-q2-2025-leave-germany-poland-costa-rica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Layoffs<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/764480\/intel-donald-trump-lip-bu-tan-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shakedowns<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24216305\/intel-13th-14th-gen-raptor-lake-cpu-crash-news-updates-patches-fixes-motherboards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crashing CPUs<\/a> torpedoing its reputation, sending desktop gamers fleeing to AMD. Apple and Qualcomm pushing Intel out of multiple flagship laptops. A gaming graphics card <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tweaktown.com\/news\/110018\/intel-arc-b770-aka-big-battlemage-has-reportedly-been-canceled-due-to-ai\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">going MIA<\/a>. But its Panther Lake laptop chip, the first on its all-important 18A process, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/867214\/intel-core-ultra-x9-panther-lake-388h-laptop-cpu-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turned out excellent<\/a> &#8211; and a handheld version might make Intel <em>the<\/em> leader in portable gaming chips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">On Monday, I spent two hours with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/939758\/msi-claw-8-ex-ai-plus-gaming-handheld-reveal-computex-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSI Claw 8 EX AI Plus<\/a> handheld atop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/938692\/intel-arc-g3-extreme-handheld-gaming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intel&rsquo;s new Arc G3 Extreme<\/a>. I walked away thinking that next-gen handhelds have finally arrived. The true leap in performance and battery life we&rsquo;ve been waiting for \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/941360\/intel-arc-g3-extreme-msi-claw-next-gen-handheld-preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new MSI Claw with Intel Arc G3 Extreme. | Photo by Sean Hollister \/ The Verge Intel couldn&rsquo;t catch [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}