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The Nintendo Switch 2 may not be Nvidia’s only handheld – a rumor says it’s building a new mobile gaming chip, and I’m excited for portable DLSS
By Isaiah Williams published
Nvidia is yet to make a strong appearance in the SoC gaming market for portable devices, but a new rumor suggests it may be happening soon.

Intel's Computex 2025 Panther Lake demos showcase power efficiency focus – and also hint at strong gaming performance
By Isaiah Williams published
Intel is teasing a heavy focus on Panther Lake's power efficiency and gaming performance, as it showcased one of the mobile processors at Computex 2025.

Qualcomm isn’t giving us new Snapdragon chips at Computex - but there’s a surprise waiting in September
By Christian Guyton published
Computex 2025 Qualcomm says ‘watch this space’ instead of actually revealing anything at Computex 2025 - but I’m not worried.

Intel releases new patch for CPUs affected by instability issues – but wait, weren’t we done with this already?
By Darren Allan published
Did you forget about Intel’s CPU instability issues? Well don’t, because there’s a new patch that fixes further problems with 14th-gen and 13th-gen chips.

AMD responds to reports of 9800X3D CPU issues
By Christian Guyton last updated
Updated More than 100 reports of dead Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips have spurred concerns, but it's not clear what the culprit is.

Hang on handheld fans, we could be seeing AMD's FSR 4 upscaling on new handhelds after all - if this new RDNA 4 leak is legitimate
By Isaiah Williams published
It's time to get excited again about the future of handheld gaming PCs, because a new leak suggests FSR 4 could be making its way to Medusa Point-powered devices.

New leak suggests AMD's working on an Arm-based processor to rival Qualcomm's Snapdragon X series
By Aleksha McLoughlin published
Arm A new leak claims that the rumored AMD "Sound Wave" APU will have similar performance to Qualcomm's Snapdragon line

Asus' AI Cache Boost promises to "pump up" your AMD Ryzen 9000 processor's AI performance
By Aleksha McLoughlin published
CPU Asus claims its new AI Cache Boost BIOS feature increases AI workload performance by up to 12.75% in Ryzen 9000 processors

Future AMD-powered gaming handhelds and notebooks could miss out on a key feature – and it might be a deal breaker for gamers
By Isaiah Williams published
It's not great news for Medusa Point Zen 6 APUs, as it's been discovered that they will use RDNA 3.5 architecture, which could mean no FSR 4 for future handhelds and laptops.
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