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Valve registers a "STEAM FRAME" trademark for new computer hardware (lemmy.ml)
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Filed just yesterday, September 2nd 2025.

STEAM FRAME™ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of computer hardware; computer networking hardware; computer peripherals; computer hardware and computer software for the reproduction, processing, and streaming of audio, video, data, text, and multimedia content.

https://uspto.report/TM/99370857

STEAM FRAME™ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of computer game consoles for recreational game playing; video game consoles; video game accessories, namely, controllers for video games.

https://uspto.report/TM/99370861

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

I have no interest in GPUs that cost 200% the cost of the rest of the PC.

Well, CPUs have come down in price because they just aren't advancing in performance that quickly any more; serial compute hasn't improved that much. If you charge much for a modern processor, people will just use an older one. Parallel compute improvements has kept going, and thus GPUs aren't under that kind of pressure from physical limitations.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is parallel computing the future? >.>

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Well, unless we make new physics breakthroughs, serial computing improvements have slowed down a lot and are just limited in how much further we can push it. Kinda makes parallel computing the future by default, at least for problems that can be parallelized. Might not be tomorrow or next year, but over time, yeah, I expect a general shift towards parallelization. That's not a huge surprise

    I mean, I think that it isn't very controversial to say that we expected that to probably ultimately happen at some point, just didn't know exactly when.

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