"There is and will be no Z2 Steam Deck," Valve coder Pierre-Loup Griffais quickly clarified on Bluesky. "Guessing the slide was meant to say the series is meant for products like

Steam Deck Pro confirmed? It definitely looks like it as AMD announces that Valve's Steam Deck will use its new Ryzen Z2 Processor.

AMD says Valve will be using one of its latest processors, the Z2 Series, inside a new Steam Deck, but Valve says otherwise.

AMD is following up its impressive Ryzen Z1 chip, which powered the original ASUS ROG Ally, with the Ryzen Z2 at CES 2025. You can pretty much guess what it delivers: More power, and potentially more battery life.

AMD initially said they would come to the Steam Deck (and others) but Valve has categorically denied a Z2 Deck.

AMD's hotly anticipated Ryzen Z2 range is finally here, and it'll start showing up in handhelds within months. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

The Ryzen Z2 Extreme is what you'd expect from a refresh: a straightforward upgrade to both the CPU and GPU architectures of the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Based on the same "Strix Point" architecture as the Ryzen AI 300 laptop processors,

AMD has officially announced the new Ryzen Z2 chips for handheld gaming PCs at CES 2025. These new chips will be powering future handhelds, similar to how we saw the Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme powering devices like the ASUS ROG Ally X,