{"id":1660,"date":"2025-11-12T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/valve-thinks-arm-has-potential-for-steamos-handhelds-laptops-and-more\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:20:00","slug":"valve-thinks-arm-has-potential-for-steamos-handhelds-laptops-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/valve-thinks-arm-has-potential-for-steamos-handhelds-laptops-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve thinks Arm has \u2018potential\u2019 for SteamOS handhelds, laptops, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Valve won\u2019t talk about a Steam Deck 2<\/a>. It probably wants to keep the attention on its just-announced living room console<\/a>, comfy new controller<\/a>, and Arm-based headset<\/a> instead. But now that the company is preparing to sell an Arm headset, one that can even run Android apps<\/a>, there\u2019s an obvious question. Is Arm a one-off experiment for Valve, or might it power future SteamOS hardware?<\/p>\n

Valve software engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais makes it sound like the sky\u2019s the limit. I don\u2019t want to oversell what he said \u2014 he was excited about the potential<\/em>, not any specific devices, and you\u2019ll see that in more context when we publish the interview later this week.<\/p>\n

But when I ask whether he thinks there\u2019ll be other SteamOS devices with Arm chips, he says the answer is yes, and that he\u2019s excited about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that it paves the way for a bunch of different, maybe ultraportables, maybe more powerful laptops being Arm-based,\u201d he begins. \u201cHandhelds, there\u2019s a lot of potential for Arm, of course, and one might see desktop chips as well at some point in the Arm world.\u201d I immediately think about how Nvidia reportedly has an Arm-powered gaming laptop coming<\/a>, and how Razer showed up<\/a> at Qualcomm\u2019s last coming-out party for laptop chips.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll keep greasing the wheels, so to speak, so that SteamOS can work on a wider variety of Arm devices, but also so that the catalog becomes more reliable there in terms of compatibility and performance,\u201d says Griffais.<\/p>\n

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Got any burning questions about Valve\u2019s new hardware?<\/h2>\n
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We\u2019re holding a subscriber-exclusive AMA today, November 12th, at 3PM ET. Drop your questions here<\/a> and we\u2019ll do our best to answer them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Griffais tells me that companies are already reaching out to Valve about handhelds, and I happen to know that one of them, OneNetbook, has recently been experimenting with (and selling) powerful handheld-grade Arm chips<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n

But again, Valve isn\u2019t talking about the Steam Deck 2 today, and I get the sense that Griffais may not see enough power in Arm handheld chips just<\/em> yet<\/em> \u2014 at least not for a \u201cgenerational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life\u201d like Valve promised for the Steam Deck\u2019s successor. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you get into lower power, anything lower than Steam Deck, I think you\u2019ll find that there\u2019s an Arm chip that maybe is competitive with x86 offerings in that segment,\u201d he tells me earlier in our conversation.<\/p>\n

I like to imagine Griffais was winking when he said \u201canything lower than Steam Deck,\u201d but his camera was off.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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