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by shaunsingh0207 1207 days ago
It was developed for general laptop use, and valve just happened to have the perfect use case for it.
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I believe the exact configuration of the Van Gogh APU is custom designed for Valve. There are very similar APUs but this exact chip is not used in laptops.
It was originally with microsoft, to go in a surface device, then that fell through and the steam deck picked it up. Not general use persay, but microsoft's general use