Valve confirms it is investigating Arm-based gaming for future Steam Machines
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Jess Kinghorn
Summary
Valve confirms it is actively investigating an Arm-based future for PC gaming and Steam Machines, building on its existing work with the FEX emulator and the upcoming Arm-specific SteamOS version for its Snapdragon-based VR headset. Engineers Yazan Aldehayyat and Pierre-Loup Griffais stated they want to support multiple architectures and are exploring Arm alongside x86 for next-generation hardware.
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· 2 pulledDefinitely, yeah
[In addition to our work on] things like FEX, we're just trying to be able to support everything, right?
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