This was only a matter of time.
Frankly, a few American companies buying up and blocking the entire global supply of memory and chips is going to mean the Chinese fabs only have to compete on price and quantity, not quality, to dominate much of the world’s chip sales.
A lot of the world will accept cheap Chinese hardware with large quantities of memory over the anemic overpriced offerings Nvidia is putting to market for 10x as much.
ETA: A Fenghua 3 with 112GB HBM is rumoured to be about $1-3k for H100 like performance, which is 1/10th the price.
What info have you heard about Fenghua 3? I’d last read that it’s not strictly an AI accelerator but can actually do graphics tasks, which is neat. Would make it more of a competitor to a professional workstation card like an RTX PRO 6000.
I’m most curious about their CUDA compatibility claim. I would expect that to cause a pretty significant performance hit since when writing high-performance CUDA kernels, you generally need to specialize the kernel to the individual GPU (an H100 kernel will look quite different compared to a 4090 kernel, for example). But if in spite of that it can achieve H100 performance, that’d be cool.
Man, if you wanted to destroy the entire American tech sector it seems like dumping everything into a red herring product that won’t ever be more than a parlor trick would be a really good way to do it.
Perhaps that’s intentional. A whole country dependent on something that’s fully based on things not being unique.
Perhaps that’s some sort of national salvation plan. Of course, with shares of power in the post-crash USA being divided by the right people beforehand.
To crash it and then create a manufacturing economy, poor, but resilient. Sort of trying to repeat China. Or USSR.
Perhaps some important people judged that USA as a developing union of colonies on a sparsely populated continent is less stable than a normal old world nation. With all the American solutions becoming less efficient over time, because there’s less and less of using unoccupied spaces, in various senses, and more and more of continuing the same old tree. And their solution is to destroy the legacy of the time when USA was a leading country, to allow for some modern muscle to grow on that skeleton. Otherwise, when that legacy would run out, the decay would be worse.
Well, I can imagine such thought process. If plenty of people on Lemmy think most of tech is scams, then why wouldn’t billionaires, it’s not as if they were different creatures from Mars.
The headline and the actual report are quite different.
- century showoff: hit small, fast moving things very accurately
Woot, competition!
