Today, Musk revealed the latest progress on Tesla’s built-in Steam platform on Twitter. It all started when a netizen expressed that their child loved playing games in their Tesla and received a reply from Musk himself, who once again mentioned the integration of Steam in Tesla.
As Musk described, Tesla may demonstrate a vehicle display integrating Steam platform next month. It is understood that Tesla’s latest MCU 3.0 is developed based on AMD Ryzen V1000 Ruilong APU (specific model is YE180FC3T4MFG). Its CPU performance is basically equivalent to PS5, and the separately equipped RDNA2 architecture independent graphics card fully meets the performance requirements of the vast majority of 3A games.
As we know, Tesla’s in-car entertainment system has always run on Linux and supports external controllers. That is to say, running Steam games on Tesla’s in-car system is no problem in terms of hardware performance and software compatibility.
The only concern is the 256GB memory space on Tesla MCU 3.0, which may be full with only a few 3A games installed. After all, the current 3A games often start at 50GB and some are over 100GB.
However, we do not know whether mainland China will update and support Steam like overseas, as the platform still lingers in a legal gray area in mainland China. So the question is, will Tesla choose to fully comply with Steam’s official mainland China version or respond to the calls of its fans and directly use the complete version of Steam? We await the answer.
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