Not wanting to lose out on the resurging trend of gaming handheld console, it is being reported that MSI is jumping on the bandwagon with its device called the CLAW. Not only that, but the console will reportedly be powered not by an AMD chipset, but one from Intel’s latest 14th Gen Meteor Lake CPU.
Specifically, the MSI CLAW will be riding on the power of a Core Ultra 7 155H, giving it a total of 16-cores, 22-threads, all a combination of P-Cores and E-Cores, plus two low-power E-Cores for mundance background tasks. While not the first gaming handheld to be powered by an Intel chipset – that honour goes to a Chinese console maker, GPD, and the brand has been doing so for some years now – the Taiwanese brand will now hold the distinction of being one of the first major PC brands to break away from the trend of fitting their console with a chipset that isn’t from the AMD Ryzen Z1 series.
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Details of the CLAW and its chipset is also listed on Geekbench. To very briefly go through the rest of the specs of the Core Ultra 7 155H, the mobile CPU has a base clock of 3.8GHz and a P-Core boost clock of 4.8GHz, integrated ARC graphics made up of eight XeSS cores with a maximum clockspeed of 2.25GHz. Lastly, MSI’s gaming handheld will be flanked by 32GB of DDR5 memory.
There is no further information or details about the MSI CLAW, such as the display size and resolution, its storage capacity and choice of storage medium, or the battery capacity and whether or not the gaming handheld will have better power consumption and efficiency. At this stage, it’s clear that MSI is merely whetting the appetites of interested parties and will reveal more at CES 2024.
(Source: Videocardz, Geekbench, Twitter)
