Intel Arc G3 interview transcript — Intel’s Senior Product Director talks new handheld chips, Arrow Lake Refresh, and RTX Spark

Intel’s Nish Neelalojanan spoke to us at Computex 2026 about Intel’s new G3 chip line, how it impacts the burgeoning handheld gaming market, and how Intel is responding to rising chip and memory prices the world over.
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Intel says ‘something has to give’ with memory prices — company says it ‘will continue to make sure that there are products which can take care of older memory technologies’

Intel sat down with Tom’s Hardware at Computex 2026, and the company says it recognizes the importance of Raptor Lake and DDR4 platforms as the memory crunch continues.
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Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP

If Nvidia has cracked a way to bring AI agents easily, safely and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.

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Nvidia says RTX Spark chip will support all major anti-cheat and DRM technologies — Fortnite, Valorant, Denuvo, and more to work natively with Windows on Arm

Microsoft and Nvidia are working together to bring popular anti-cheat software to the new RTX Spark chip, allowing support for all major multiplayer games. So far, Fortnite is the only game that runs on Windows-on-Arm devi…

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Intel warns it has ‘a healthy dose of paranoia’ over Nvidia entrance into PC market — company says RTX Spark is ‘great for the market’ while touting the virtues of x86

Intel reacts to Nvidia’s RTX Spark announcement, and says that it’s treating the green giant’s entrance into consumer SoCs with “a healthy dose of skepticism.”
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Nvidia lays out RTX Spark roadmap for laptops and desktop PCs at Computex 2026 — three generations outlined, Rubin with LPDDR6 memory, followed by Rosa Feynman

Along with its first-generation RTX Spark platform for desktop and laptop PCs, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed the company’s commitment to future generations of those platforms on its future roadmaps.
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Intel Xeon 7 ‘Diamond Rapids’ CPUs officially launching in 2027 on Intel 18A-P — next-gen P-core Xeon features PCIe 6.0, 50% higher core counts, and twice the memory bandwidth

Intel has officially confirmed its next-gen Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids CPUs are coming in 2027, featuring 50% higher core counts and twice the memory bandwidth of Xeon 6 in a bid to compete against AMD’s upcoming EPYC Venice CP…

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Intel Xeon 6+ ‘Clearwater Forest’ puts 18A in the data center with up to 288 cores, 576 MB of L3 cache — new Xeon 6990E+ is 30% faster per thread than 192-core AMD Epyc 9965, says Intel

Intel is putting its 18A node into the data center with new Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest CPUs, which pack up to 288 E-cores for dense compute.
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AMD brings back Ryzen 7 5800X3D, launches Ryzen 7 7700X3D to combat rising component prices — eight-core X3D CPUs arrive under $350 for AM4 or AM5, DDR4 or DDR5

AMD is rereleasing the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and introducing the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, both eight-core chips with 3DV-Cache targeting midrange gamers who’ve been under the thumb of rising component prices.
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AMD confirms AM5 support through 2029 — Zen 4 and 5 platform will likely see two more generations, at least

AMD confirmed it will support its current AM5 socket through 2029, extending the timeline by two years and likely lining up at least two more generations on the socket.
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