Valve confirms its working with both Intel and Nvidia on future SteamOS support

Valve already alluded to ‘expanding support' for hardware beyond AMD on SteamOS in a blog post earlier this week, but now the company has also confirmed to The Verge that it is working directly with both Intel and Nvidia.

Speaking with The Verge, Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais confirmed that Intel has “been doing a lot of hard work” getting its graphics stack up and running on SteamOS. However, an Intel spokesperson added that it didn't have “anything to share timeline-wise on SteamOS support”.

While it sounds like Intel is the closest to getting SteamOS support, Griffais also told the outlet that it is collaborating with Nvidia “very closely”, which is interesting, as for many years Nvidia has avoided the Linux gaming space. Valve itself also has a growing team working on Nvidia hardware to bring support to SteamOS.

While Valve is working with both Intel and Nvidia at this point, it does not expect to expand SteamOS support to their hardware this year, so we will have to wait and see.

KitGuru Says: Intel itself just got into the gaming handheld space, though so far, the first handhelds to use the new Arc G3 processor are Windows-based. That could change in the not-too-distant future. 

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