Comment on Discussion: Do you think the next steamdeck will be x86 or ARM?

smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• SGG@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My understanding is Apple did this by having the more “expensive” to emulate commands be actual hardware, so some commands are emulated/translated, but others are just implemented in hardware on the processor. They could do this because they control the hardware and OS. Microsoft or anyone else trying to get that done is much more of a challenge.

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• bobo1900@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Translation layers are possibile, but from what I can see, are quite unreliable for games (especially more graphically-demanding), which is not of high importance for Apple

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