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Isaiah Williams

AMD is making a handheld gaming PC chip with proper AI capabilities, but do gamers really need this?

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Handheld gaming PCs have made a full comeback, serving as one of the most popular ways for game enthusiasts to enjoy their hobby anywhere at any time. We have a wide range of great options like the Steam Deck from Valve (which is sort of the handheld trendsetter for this generation), the Asus ROG Ally X, Lenovo Legion Go, and the MSI Claw 8 AI+ - in short, it's only going to get better with time.

The integral part of these handhelds and their gaming performance capabilities is their processors (or more specifically, SoCs, meaning System-on-a-Chip), with the CPU and GPU on the same die. Thanks to AMD and Intel primarily, we've had the joys of using chips like the Ryzen Z1 Extreme and the Core Ultra 7 258V in handheld PCs, providing enough processing power for great performance across numerous games.

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