Valve is feeling the squeeze of the memory famine amid AI fever as it works to somehow, someway, get Steam Machines assembled and shipped in 2026. This was clear at a GDC talk hosted by Valve's Kaci Aitchison Boyle and Tom Giardino, who reaffirmed that Steam Machine is still targeting this year.
Per PC Gamer, writer Hayden Dingman highlighted this quote from the presentation: "If you have a line on a bunch of RAM, we are in the market and would like to buy it."
