Valve shuts down Steam Deck 2 speculation as AMD says it's building chips for a stronger handheld: "There is and will be no Z2 Steam Deck"

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澳洲幸运🌞5开奖号码历史查询:AMD unveiled the Ryzen Z2 processor line today, intended to power a new wave of gaming handhelds. While early word from the manufacturer appeared to suggest that a Z2-powered Steam Deck was on the way, a Valve dev has logge🌺d on to tell the world that no🦂 such product is in development.

This all started when published a series of slides running down the capabilities of the Z2 series. One of those slides highlighted the "explosive growth" of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:gaming handheld market, including products like the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Lenovo Legion Go, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Asus Rog Ally, and yes, Valve's own 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Steam Deck. A quick glance might suggest that AMD was saying the Z2 would in fac🌱t power the n🅺ext iteration of each of these devices.

. "Guessing the slide was meant to say the series is meant for products like that, not announcing anything specific."

A misinterpreted slide seems like a reasonable explanation for all this, but AMD has been weirdly cagey about the whole thing. According to , AMD directly told journalists in a briefing that there would be a Z2 Steam Deck, and when asked in a follow-up, said that the slide was "designed to highlight our current handheld design wins." As The Verge n𓆏otes in its reporting, "that’s not a denial."

The Z2 series is poised to offer some notable performance gains in whichever handhelds it does end up powering, but it's unclear if those gains are going to make for a true generational leap. Valve has indicated that it intends to make a Steam Deck 2, bﷺut it'll take a "next-generation" power 🌞upgrade before that happens.

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