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Isn't steam deck already on ARM chip ?
no, it runs on x86 as its essentially a semicustom AMD chip. AMD currently does not have any consumer facing ARM chips
Which is a major bummer. I remember Project SkyBridge, but that never happened. If it did, I'd probably be running an AMD ARM chip right now.
AMD is testing arm in the backend, but they have no incentive to switching to an ARM design at the moment. I fully believe both AMD and Nvidia are waiting for Qualcomm/Microsoft to iron out Windows for Arm before they release their projects. Nvidia of course has experience via tegra for linux via jetson. AMD is just making use of their advantageous situation on desktop/server market to not need to immediately shift to ARM.
With Ryzen x3D for consumers(desktop), and Ryzen #c cores for low power server core count/low power consumption/yields. they control a huge mind share and the only one they dont control is low power boards (<35W) devices as it's not their current priority (theyre devouring the server market)
Yeah, I'm just disappointed, because I'd love a low-power DIY NAS and I really don't need need anything x86-specific on it. My main limitation with current ARM SOCs is limited RAM, I really want 16GB RAM, and many SOCs only go to 4GB.
I know why they don't do it, I was just hoping they'd make an option to use the same socket for ARM and x86 so I could pull a low-end server chip and put it into a higher-end consumer board and have my cake and eat it too.
if its strictly nas, yeah thats a flaw. the advantage of the x86 devices is that the low power chips have good transcoding. so its common for people to pick up intel n series boards for intel quicksync, and the raw expansion ports for storage
Yeah, I don't need transcoding, I just need NAS, some random services, and occasional compiles.
Nope. Zen2, x86
AMD is internally working on ARM, though (they started an ARM design team to try to snatch the 'switch 2' contract from Nvidia, which they were ultimately unsuccessful in doing).
And with Valve working on this, I guess that means we may see an ARM Steam Deck in the future.
Damn
No, it's a custom AMD x86-64 chip.