tl;dr Alyssa Rosenzweig. Amazing news, she’s been a driving force behind reverse engineered GPU driver project Panfrost as well as had part in the Apple M1 GPU driver. I was surprised to hear that she was leaving Collabora but it makes sense that she’d end up at Valve. Hoping for great things in the PC GPU space from her!
Have you guys seen her CV? The achievement/age ratio is stunning. All the best to her!
She’s a genius. After seeing what she did for the M1 driver, I am sure we’re going to be in for a treat with whatever she’s working on next.
I am a bit surprised by this as her expertise really isn’t in optimizing AMD driver performance, which is what Valve has been mostly doing.
I suspect it might be related to the rumored Decard VR headset that supposedly includes some ARM components.
If she were to reverse engineer the Qualcom VR stuff this might even result in a open-source driver for the Meta Quest headsets, which would be fantastic.
More good news for steam deck owners. Can’t wait for v2!
More powerful Deck, or heck, even a more powerful official Steam Machine that doesn’t break the bank?
Are there any patents or anything stopping Valve from pulling a Switch and making both at the same time?
Hell, the deck is mostly there. It just needs a dock and the ability to remove the controller from the frame.
Not sure. Could have sworn there was a prototype Razor tablet that never came to market which had removable side controllers as well.
My issue with a hybrid device like that though is the lack of power compared to standard consoles. I really want a decently specced Steam Machine that’s just a really good 1080p - 1440p gaming machine
Valve’s been a blessing to all of us, it’s really hard to overestimate the effect they had on Linux gaming as a whole
