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Valve Announces Steam Deck OLED, Deck 2 in the Works (gamersnexus.net)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, this puts them on equal footing with Microsoft and Sony, which implies that the Steam Deck is selling very well.

I wouldn't quite say that. Significant chunks of RDNA2 go back to Microsoft telling AMD things that they required from the graphics architecture of the next Xbox, back in 2016. I'm sure Sony did similar.

Valve in this case was able to take advantage of this increased R&D aspect of RDNA2 and get a custom chip based on it, but I don't think they would have that same position in the development of the architecture, if that makes sense.

Of course, I'm a beneficiary of all of the above!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'd say that it's true that the custom work done by AMD for Microsoft and Sony is more extensive than for Valve, but Valve did get a custom APU and a 6nm refresh of it. That's something that no other companies except for Sony and Microsoft are getting.