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Valve has ‘a pretty good idea’ of what Steam Deck 2 is going to be, but it’s not ready yet [VGC]
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Why this obsession with ARM?
Do you even what to be able to game on the thing? AMD cpus have come a long way with battery life. And Linux amd64 support is at this point at 20years, arm is at 5y if you’re lucky, usually 2-0y.
I'm not so concerned with the instruction set. The differences are generally overrated.
I'm concerned about monopoly power. Out of three companies that can legally make modern x86-64 processors, AMD is the only one worth talking about anymore. Unless China wants to throw some major weight into restarting VIA's x86 line, that's not likely to change. China seems fine with ARM and RISC-V, and ignoring x86.
The competition on the horizon is no longer AMD vs Intel. It's AMD vs ARM vs RISC-V.
It's not necessarily about ARM. Based on their statements, they're looking for >75% performance increase at similar power levels and cost. That spec doesn't exist today and going forward, ARM will probably have a better shot at meeting that spec than AMD (depending on continued development of FEX).
AMD has more power saving features on the roadmap than Qualcomm
That would be great to see and at a competitive price point.
If Apple licensed their optimised variant of ARM to third parties, Steam would probably jump right on it, along with other hardware manufacturers. The performance Apple Silicon got over the x86 machines it replaced was game-changing, along with the improved battery life. And other ARM vendors, whilst behind Apple (who do have excellent CPU engineers), are catching up.
Keep dreaming, and even if Apple magically licensed out I’m not sure it would be worthwhile.
Intel & AMD have been incredible at maintaining, supporting mainline Linux and keeping old hardware supported.
Apple on the other hand ends support at 7years maximum, no Linux support.
Qualcomm ends support at 5y with support being the bear minimum for Linux.