Better watch out for Steam Deck, Qualcomm will prepare its portable console to compete with Valve

Since the release of Steam Deck, valve hand console, everyone is going with the competitor model. Asus takes inspiration from Nintendo Switch with Lenovo, Legion Go at ROG Rally… Qualcommat the origin of celebrities Snapdragon processorsLooks like it wants to start. The manufacturer recently introduced G series chipsis designed to fully equip portable consoles. But that is not what concerns us here.

in an interview with Border Mithun Chandrasekhar, Director of Gaming at Qualcomm, had an alluding sentence about this launch: “We started working internally on things that weren’t Android related.” A few minutes later, the interviewee also said that these “things” Doesn’t affect Windows either. Therefore the question is: Is Qualcomm preparing something to more or less combine the two? ? Mithun Chandrasekhar confirmed.

Qualcomm is working on a way to run Windows games

The manufacturer is testingusing processors with a translation layer Let them run Windows games. It is essentially the same system as on the Steam Deck: Windows games run on Steam OS (based on Linux). Proton compatibility layer. It is not possible to initialize headers without said layer.

This kind of functionality has nothing to do with Crafting a portable console made in Qualcommtherefore it will use a Snapdragon processor. Many questions, of course, remain unanswered. On the technical side, structure of snapdragon chip not the same as those found on the portable consoles mentioned here. Running Windows games is basically less interruptions, which can cause a problem increased power consumption and lower performance compared to the competition. But there is no doubt that Qualcomm is fully aware of this.