Sure, all the brand new tech being launched at CES 2024 in Las Vegas is cool and all… however what’s even cooler? Picking the brains of all of the sensible individuals who assist make that new tech occur. Enter Intel Fellow and graphics guru Tom Petersen.

Handheld gaming PC diehard slash PCWorld video lead Adam Patrick Murray and I caught up with the ever-eloquent Petersen on the present, ostensibly to speak concerning the MSI Claw. This freshly revealed Steam Deck rival is the primary gadget in its class to run on Intel’s just-as-freshly-revealed “Meteor Lake” Core Ultra processors, and Petersen wished to speak concerning the particulars of the gadget.

But Tom being Tom, he didn’t cease (or begin) there. Check out the total interview for insights into:

• Intel’s ferocious tempo of driver enhancements on desktop Arc graphics playing cards.
• How that fast growth carries over into the Arc graphics built-in into Meteor Lake cellular chips.
• The advantages of Core Ultra processors transferring to a brand new, disaggregated design chock filled with mix-and-match technological “tiles,” like a graphics tile, an I/O tile, a CPU tile, and extra.
• Casual non-confirmed hypothesis about how transferring to disaggregated tiles for CPU and GPU designs might allow a way forward for hyper-specific chips and graphics playing cards purpose-built for particular wants.
• The MSI Claw and the benefits Core Ultra affords, in fact.
• Any info we might pry out of Tom about next-gen Intel Arc “Battlemage” graphics playing cards.
• And extra!

Petersen’s all the time an insightful interview, and this one’s no exception. For much more particulars on the MSI’s handheld, take a look at Adam’s comparability of the Claw against the Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally.

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