Qualcomm won’t be announcing Windows gaming handhelds at GDC after all
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Qualcomm has shifted plans and will not announce updates to its Snapdragon G Series gaming chips or offer hands-on access to Snapdragon X Series at GDC, despite earlier hints about launching Arm-based processors for Windows gaming handhelds.
In January, Qualcomm hinted to The Verge that it might finally bring its powerful Arm-based Snapdragon processors to Windows gaming handhelds at the 2026 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco - just in time to challenge Nvidia's own first Arm gaming CPU and Intel's first dedicated handheld gaming chips.
But plans have shifted, Qualcomm now tells me. It won't announce any updates to its Snapdragon G Series gaming chips there, nor offer the recently announced updates to the Snapdragon X line for journalists to try or benchmark.
"Snapdragon X Series and Snapdragon G Series processors are pushing the PC, desktop, and handheld gaming dev …