Intel is building a portable gaming platform that includes a custom chip

Intel is looking to double down on its gaming hardware efforts with a new chip and platform for mobile gaming.

The platform will include hardware and software, Intel vice president and general manager of computer products, Daniel Rogers, announced at CES on Monday. It will be built using the company’s Intel Core Series 3 processors, known as Panther Lake, which were announced last year and are now being rolled out in a variety of PCs.

This futuristic platform includes a dedicated chip for handheld gaming devices, IGN reports, which has been confirmed by TechCrunch.

These Panther Lake chips are the company’s first chips built on the 18A manufacturing process which will begin production in 2025.

Intel is no stranger to the gaming industry, having been building chips for gaming PCs since the 1990s. The company pivoted more into gaming in 2022 with the release of Intel Arc GPUs.

Entering the mobile gaming space would be an interesting development, as AMD currently dominates the market. AMD just announced a new processor designed for gaming PCs, the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D, at its CES keynote on Monday, as well as new ray tracing and graphics technologies for gaming.

Rogers said Intel will share more details about its new mobile gaming products later this year.

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