Steam Deck creator Pierre-Loup Griffais explains that Valve is funding ARM compatibility layers for future ultraportables.
  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    902·
    23 hours ago

    Valve has been secretly funding Fex, an open-source project to bring Windows games to ARM, for almost a decade

    In this age of leaks and industry insider speculation I’m very impressed they’ve kept this under wraps for so long

    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      I find this very possible that they kept it hidden for so long. After all, Valve has been very tight on leaks for very long. Guess that HL2 dev build leak taught them a fair lot in how to protect their business from leaking info.

    • julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de
      362·
      23 hours ago

      They have not. I can‘t provide you the link, but it was long speculated that they are working on an ARM device. Also you cannot really hide activity in an open source project. It was just not officially communicated that these changes have been funded by Valve.

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
        18·
        23 hours ago

        Sure it’s been speculated, but if there were obvious signs like commits in the fex repos by valve employees then wouldn’t there have been more than speculation?

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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        16 hours ago

        Also you cannot really hide activity in an open source project.

        You could, if the person was not known to work for the company.