I think you mean Steam Deck, Steam Link is a remote play box for your TV that was released in 2015 and discontinued (in hardware form) in 2018. Steam Deck is expected to release at the end of next month.
Steam Link is a bit more general than that - it also includes the mechanism that Steam uses to stream games to NVIDIA Shield, mobile phones, and between computers.
But the parent did indeed mean the Deck.
Yes, I definitely mean that! I have one reserved myself, so I'm not sure why I misspoke.