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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Matthew Connatser

Valve preps mysterious 'Fremont' SteamOS device powered by AMD Ryzen processor — potential Steam Box may sport a Hawk Point CPU with Zen 4 and RDNA 3 graphics

Steam Hardware Survey April 2022.

As spotted by Reddit user coolbho3k on the r/SteamDeck subreddit, Valve appears to be testing a new SteamOS-based device. The mysterious device, which Valve calls Fremont, seems to be the long-awaited successor to the Steam Box.

The Steam Deck kernel was updated a month ago for a device codenamed Fremont, which doesn’t correspond to any officially released Valve product. The kernel update is brief and only changes a single character on a single line. However, there are some nuggets of information: references to a ChromeOS Embedded Controller (CEC) driver, Google Dexi, and AMD Lilac.

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