Valve escaped Windows. Now Steam is breaking free from the PC itself

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Valve spent the last decade making Windows optional for PC gaming. Now it wants to do the same thing to x86 — the Intel- and AMD-based CPU architecture at the heart of every gaming PC. If it succeeds, the resulting shake-up could change what “PC game” even means. The Steam Deck proved Valve’s…