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Even a 50 percent performance-per-watt improvement wouldn’t be enough, engineer says.

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[–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if the technology behind the Steam Frame running games on ARM will ever make it's way to turning any Android phone into a Steam machine of sorts.

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I was just thinking that, some phones are pretty beefy, there's no reason to not do this.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I mean we can play either KOTOR game on mobile, Lego Star Wars on mobile, Red Dead Redemption is coming out on mobile.

I just looked and DRG: Survivor, TABS, Dredge, Hitman Absolution, Little Nightmares, Stardew Valley, Terraria, Limbo, Human Fall Flat, even Getting Over It are all playable on mobile.

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

For sure, but those are all individually rebuilt from the ground up for that purpose of running on an arm chip. I can't run my favourite games from 2008 on my phone, or a weird indie niche title. With technology like this, you probably could, and quite easily if done right.

It's not just about the games either, it's a good step towards making all programs somewhat hardware agnostic. The ARM x86 septation was pretty much set in concrete up until now, it's a crazy advancement.