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Valve is testing ARM64 support for popular games, sparking speculations about future hardware
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Since they seem so interested in Linux, open source, and boosting currently niche technologies to mainstream, maybe they should make the Steam Deck RISC-V?
Valve is interested in controlling the software they use on their hardware and not being dependent on Microsoft or license costs. They are a for profit business. More games running on their machines help their sales.
RISC-V would be a terrible architecture for them at the moment. There are zero chips available with somewhat competitive performance. The number of commercial games that natively run on it is also small if not zero.
I think the open source angle is slightly incidental: They saw Apple's and Microsoft app stores as a threat and decided using linux as the OS for their devices. That's at least what I've read a long time ago.