Following in the footsteps of both AMD and Intel, Nvidia is apparently working on a "premium" handheld PC device powered by a GeForce GPU.
  • @[email protected]
    18•9 months ago

    Any device produced by this partnership, however, would require heatsinks akin to those found in the best gaming laptops, as the CPU and GPU would now be separated.

    Dumb editorialising there - the writer has no idea how mobile CPU and GPU packages work.

  • @[email protected]
    16•9 months ago

    “Instead of opening our drivers up, we’ll make the whole system proprietary. Everyone wins!”

  • trevor
    13•9 months ago

    If it runs Windows, I’m out. SteamOS has too many niceties that can’t just be bolted-on to Windows.

  • @[email protected]
    6•9 months ago

    Never gonna trust rumours coming from MLID. There’s very small margins in consoles and Nvidia is shifting their focus away from graphics. Time will tell, but besides the switch, I don’t see it happening.

    • @[email protected]
      6•9 months ago

      If Nintendo keeps sending millions of dollars trying to put its fan base in prison… then yes.

    • @[email protected]OP
      2•9 months ago

      Nintendo hardware is, most importantly, Nintendo hardware. If the next switch drop Tegra in favor of something from Intel/AMD… the whole Nintendo industry (and the whole library in the Nintendo’s store) goes to Intel/AMD.

      On Steam Deck you have a different kind of completion: the margin you make in the industry (PC gaming) will be always up to your innovation as company (Valve can’t do nothing to kick out Nvidia out of the PC gaming inndustry).

      On the other side, if Nvidia keeps ignoring Steam Deck…AMD keep arise in the whole PC gaming industry with their tech (which, since is open, it’s more favorable for the end-user but not for Nvidia’s closed-walled-ambitions)

  • Max-P
    5•9 months ago

    With a bit of luck they’ll finally fix Wayland on their drivers so it can run SteamOS well, but I suspect they’ll slap Windows on it.

    It would be nice if they went ARM at least instead of yet another x86 handheld. But there’s no way they’d fund Box64 or FEX to make it happen. The shield was quite popular, and they obviously provide the chips for the Switch, it wouldn’t be a crazy leap for them apart from having to translate x86 to ARM.