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Valve software engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais has chimed in on Bluesky to state that the information presented in AMD’s slides, as reported by Videocardz, may not be true.
“There is and will be no Z2 Steam Deck,” he said. “Guessing the slide was meant to say the series is meant for products like that, not announcing anything specific.”
Sounds like AMD is starting to get serious about handheld APUs. The Zen 5 based Ryzen Z2 Extreme is the really interesting one. I am curious how it will perform in terms of efficiency and if battery life will be comparable to older Zen 4/Zen 3+ handheld APU (for better performance at the same power level).
I just hope Valve continues to keep growing the SteamOS ecosystem. I am not in the market for a handheld, but I am not moving to Windows 11 and additional gaming support would be great (although older games like Simcity 4 and Simcity 3000 don’t look like they’ll ever get “platinum” level wine support).