• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    it mostly improved after tigerlake, but at the time of steam deck taping out designs, intel was still far behind and realistically was not an option. it will down the line given the AI boom has essentially made the igpu a very important piece of hardware, but not when the original deck was designed on paper.

    unless intel was going to give valve a really good deal on tigerlake cpus back in 2020, it was not going to happen.

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      4 months ago

      The “AI boom” means that Intel is going to take die space from the GPU and give it to an NPU. That’s how you get Windows 11®️ CoPilot™️ cetified.