Nvidia could be teaming up with MediaTek to create a Steam Deck-busting handheld gaming chip

designed to cash in on the AI boom and compete with everything from traditional Intel and AMD APUs right through to the new. Well, now there's a rumour that Nvidia and MediaTek are also cooking up a chip specifically designed for handheld gaming PCs.

You could imagine something much faster than the AMD Phoenix APU used by all the current handhelds du jour, including the, and with much better battery life. Add in DLSS upscaling, much better ray tracing, and the result would surely be a big, fat yes please. The immediate questions that follow are why Nvidia would work with MediaTek on such a chip and exactly what kind of Arm cores might it have? It's hard to be sure on either count.Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors

On the other hand, an Nvidia chip for handhelds that didn't just have Nvidia graphics but also some fancy, bespoke Arm CPU cores rather than the generic core designs Arm itself licences could be a lot more interesting. To tie this altogether, Nvidia and MediaTek have publicly announced a joint-venture SoC with Arm cores and Nvidia GPU and AI blocks. It's not a huge jump from there to a similar chip optimised for laptops. And once you've got that it's relatively small beer to make something for gaming handhelds.

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