Valve Software finally confirmed that the Steam Machine game consoles built by its hardware partners will include AMD graphics chips.
Prototypes of Valve's Steam Machine consoles, announced last week, will use Intel CPUs and graphics chips made by Nvidia. But a spokesman for Valve Software said in an emailed statement that future designs will use AMD graphics, as well. The company did not respond to requests for comment last Friday.
"Although the graphics hardware that we've selected for the first wave of Steam Machine prototypes is a variety of Nvidia cards, that is not an indication that Steam Machines are Nvidia-only," a Valve spokesman said in a statement this week. "In 2014, there will be Steam Machines commercially available with graphics hardware made by AMD, Nvidia, and Intel. Valve has worked closely with all three of these companies on optimizing their hardware for SteamOS, and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future."
The spokesman did not say, however, whether or not the Steam Machines would actually use AMD's microprocessors, generally considered to be slower than Intel's own. The opposite is true of AMD's graphics chips, however.
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