Valve quickly shoots down Steam Deck 2 rumors just as AMD announces a new processor designed for portable devices like the Steam Deck.

It’s the rhythm of CES, friends. This time’s iteration of the screen started out loud and clear with finds of unused hardware – many of which you won’t have resources for, unused cheats, flashy screens, and too many mentions of AI. CES can be a hotbed for unused chip finds, and AMD tends to ship products all the time.

The chipmaker is attractive to anyone who cares about the portable gaming area at the presentation, so there is a lot of joy about the unused Z2 processor and the devices it will power very soon. Unfortunately, although AMD stated it, truth be told, it will not come with an unused Steam Deck.

AMD introduced the form of unused Ryzen Z2 APU, designed for low-power drives, similar to gaming laptops. The Z1 and Z1 Final will also be available on several first-generation wearables, and this next version already has several of them covered for an update.

As part of a CES call announcing the unused form (via PC Gamer), AMD stated that Z2-equipped handhelds are on the way “from a variety of partners, Legion Travel, ROG Best Friend, Valve Steam Deck “This is clearly great information, but it’s only effective because it’s surprising. Also, it doesn’t seem to be correct.

Valve engineer and Steam Deck developer Pierre-Loup Griffais quickly turned to Bluesky to explain that “there is and will be no Z2 Steam Deck.” He also added what most people were probably thinking: that the slide should probably say “intended for products like that, without announcing anything specific.”

Valve has long said that it’s not interested in designing an unused Steam Deck unless it can make a profit on a major generational improvement over the Wave design, but the company also said that the last time we won’t see a Steam Deck 2 until at least less delayed in 2025, so there is a chance, assuming an unused one is released after this time, that it will be the use of the generation that was simply introduced, or probably a modified model of that. After all, production picks up pace.

Like its predecessor, the Z2 architecture features a CPU and GPU on the same chip. There will be three models available, the Z2 Final, the standard Z2 and the Z2 Travel. The two high-end options are virtually the same, except for the Final’s more powerful GPU due to it having four additional GPU cores. The Final uses the RDNA 3.5 framework and none of the Z2s will use the newly announced RDNA 4.