News Valve preps mysterious 'Fremont' SteamOS device powered by AMD Ryzen processor — potential Steam Box may sport a Hawk Point CPU with Zen 4 and RDNA...

[Admin]

Fremont may be the codename for a new and improved Steam Box, featuring a mobile chip and discrete GPU from AMD.

Valve preps mysterious 'Fremont' SteamOS device powered by AMD Ryzen processor — potential Steam Box may sport a Hawk Point CPU with Zen 4 and RDNA... : Read more

 

[DingusDog]

Hopefully Google isn't involved seeing how long Stadia lasted.

 

[usertests]

I don't know if I'd buy one. The second-generation handheld is more interesting to me. A box using an off-the-shelf Rembrandt or Phoenix/Hawk APU would be competing with a lot of similar boxes that have been around and discounted for years. It would need to be cheap (subsidized to push Steam game sales) to make a splash.

On handhelds, AMD's Z2 options are lazy, and not customized like the Steam Deck APU, which was supposedly leftovers from a cancelled Microsoft product. You have to wonder if Valve will go custom again for Steam Deck 2. If the release is as far out as it seems, it might end up with something like Zen 6 + UDNA1. A power-tamed 256-bit APU could also be stellar.

Hopefully Google isn't involved seeing how long Stadia lasted.

But what is it, a Chromebook motherboard, or a literal tiny chip only controlling HDMI? There are few results about it.

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