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PayPalDuring AMD's latest earnings call that covers the fourth quarter and full year of 2025, AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su gave a small update on Valve's Steam Machine.
It's not really surprising that AMD would name-drop someone else's upcoming hardware, since they're providing the semi-custom AMD Zen 4 CPU and the semi-custom AMD RDNA3 GPU. Valve remain pretty tight-lipped about the new Steam Machine, as they've not said much on it at all recently.
From the call on February 3rd, Su said:
From a product standpoint, Valve is on track to begin shipping its AMD powered Steam Machine early this year.
At the same time, Su also mentioned Microsoft's next generation Xbox too:
And development of Microsoft's next-gen Xbox featuring an AMD semi-custom SoC is progressing well to support a launch in 2027.
The full report and links to the webcast audio can be found on the AMD website. If you listen to the call the above quotes are from about 0:13:04.
Hopefully Valve will give us pricing and release details sometime soon.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I don't care about the Steam Machine, but hopefully an early 2026 release also means an early 2026 release for the Steam Controller 2.
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Quoting: tmtvlI don't care about the Steam Machine, but hopefully an early 2026 release also means an early 2026 release for the Steam Controller 2.This VR thing whose name was so generic that I seem to have forgotten it even though I'd pay a thousand bucks for it...!
"Frame". It's Frame, right?
Last edited by Eike on 4 Feb 2026 at 11:41 am UTC
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Arehandoro 5 hours ago
If we're too late to say "Happy New year" to friends we see for the first time in 2026, we are too late to say "Early 2026" for this as well. Or maybe May counts as early as it's in the first half of the year? Do they mean early financial year?
P.S: I'd like the devices out now, please.
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P.S: I'd like the devices out now, please.
Last edited by Arehandoro on 4 Feb 2026 at 11:42 am UTC
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You guys know about Valve Time, right? 😆
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
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Quoting: ArehandoroIf we're too late to say "Happy New year" to friends we see for the first time in 2026, we are too late to say "Early 2026" for this as well. Or maybe May counts as early as it's in the first half of the year? Do they mean early financial year?In the frame of a full year, February is early in my book. Maybe May. But that's it.
P.S: I'd like the devices out now, please.
P.S: I'd like the devices out now, please.
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Quoting: ArehandoroIf we're too late to say "Happy New year" to friends we see for the first time in 2026, we are too late to say "Early 2026" for this as well. Or maybe May counts as early as it's in the first half of the year? Do they mean early financial year?Chinese New Year? That way even March is passable.
P.S: I'd like the devices out now, please.
Or, it might just be a shareholder nod. "AMD has fulfilled its commitments blah blah."
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Liam Dawe 4 hours ago
I would say the start of May would no longer count as "early".
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 4 Feb 2026 at 12:03 pm UTC
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 4 Feb 2026 at 12:03 pm UTC
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I'm still worried about the price. Even the most pessimistic scenario of $1,000 is becoming less and less realistic option.
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Arehandoro 2 hours ago
Quoting: SzkodnixI'm still worried about the price. Even the most pessimistic scenario of $1,000 is becoming less and less realistic option.Same. I read, on RPS I think, that the Frame could probably be also around that. I hope that doesn't mean that the controller will go up to the $100 mark.
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Quoting: ArehandoroIf we're too late to say "Happy New year" to friends we see for the first time in 2026, we are too late to say "Early 2026" for this as well. Or maybe May counts as early as it's in the first half of the year? Do they mean early financial year?In some interviews during the first hands on reports Valve said it would launch in Q1. Does that mean it will still happen that early? Not really. But that was their target.
P.S: I'd like the devices out now, please.
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Quoting: neolithYou guys know about Valve Time, right? 😆yes, that's why valve is also releasing the ' Zimmer-Frame ' to account for the time it will take to release the product.
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
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Quoting: ArehandoroSame. I read, on RPS I think, that the Frame could probably be also around that. I hope that doesn't mean that the controller will go up to the $100 mark.While I don't know what they are going to charge for the controller, I am pretty sure that it doesn't use any kind of memory, so it should not be directly impacted by the current insanity regarding prices.
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