Valve earlier launched its own Steam Deck handheld, and began to make efforts in the field of Linux-related games. According to phoronix, Valve recently hired famous open source Linux graphics driver developer Alyssa Rosenzweig to improve the Linux graphics driver and enhance the Linux gaming ecosystem, which is expected to prepare for the next generation of Steam Deck handhelds.
Valve has made huge improvements to the Mesa 3D driver over the past few years, and now that the Steam Deck is performing well and the RADV Vulkan driver is quite mature, they show no signs of letting up and are still refining the open source Linux graphics driver, so Valve is currently hiring a lot of engineers for that as well.
The company’s newest product is a new product that will be released in the near future.
Alyssa Rosenzweig is said to have done a lot of work on the Panfrost open source, reverse-engineered Arm Mali graphics driver over the years, and she has been working on Linux graphics at Collabora for the past four years. She has also been reverse engineering graphics for the Apple M1 / M2 SoC since 2021 and working with the Asahi Linux team to develop AGX Gallium3D code for OpenGL on Linux using Apple Silicon.
The company’s first project was to develop an open source Linux graphics driver for the next generation of Steam Deck handhelds.
The company’s newest product is a new product that will be released in the future. It is believed that her name is likely to appear in the acknowledgments of Steam clients or Valve games in the future.
