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Rebecca Spear

THE TRUTH ABOUT: This year s gaming handheld war rages over premium hardware but what we really need are weird and affordable devices | History Defined

A concept image of a purple clamshell Windows handheld gaming PC running Little Witch in the Woods. A graphic in the top right corner shows a handheld with the Windows Central logo on the screen, surrounded by a USB-C cable and says, "Gaming Handheld Recap.".

At CES 2026, Intel unveiled its next-gen Core Ultra Series 3 chips (Panther Lake) and its powerful ARC B390 graphics, which will challenge AMD's handheld dominance in what some are calling the handheld war.

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