There is already a lot of good Chinese DDR 5 memory on the market and it’s a matter of time before Chinese GPU’s and CPU’s proliferate. I remember people in the west global north were sceptic about the viability of Chinese electric cars ever existing just 5 years ago; Elon even laughed at the possibility. Tables turn fast when you have industrial capacity and central planning.
Chinese electric cars were always going to take off. RAM is just a commodity; if you sell the most bits at the lowest price and sufficient speed, it works.
If you’re in edge machine learning, if you write your own software stacks for niche stuff, Chinese hardware will be killer.
But if you’re trying to run Steam games? Or CUDA projects? That’s a whole different story. It doesn’t matter how good the hardware is, they’re always going to be handicapped by software in “legacy” code. Not just for performance, but driver bugs/quirks.
Proton (and focusing everything on a good Vulkan driver) is not a bad path forward, but still. They’re working against decades of dev work targeting AMD/Nvidia/Intel, up and down the stack.
Hard to swoop in with massive tariffs. The few players that remain will just charge a lot more…it’ll become the rich lucky few who can afford their own hardware.
Sorry to break it to you bud; But America has a Plutocracy problem; It’s not a question of Putin running the show, but the American legal system being unable to persecute crimes and corruption if it happens to be billionaires. So in essence the system is compromised.
Not an American here, nor a defender of what people did or didn’t vote for.
What I was getting at was the massive media manipulation from outside and inside and the obvious foreign control the Dear Leader is under. With the deadly combination of of poor education, widespread media illiteracy and pervasive social media, our democracies have become even more remotely-controllable for whoever is willing to put the money in.
AMERICAN manufacturers, just waint until the Chinese industries swoop in to fill the gap. I seriously feel America just wants to kneecap itself.
I mean, I’d kill for a Chinese GPU. But software lock-in for your Steam back catalog is strong.
Also, have you been watching all the Chinese GPU announcements? They’re all in on datacenter machine learning ASICs too.
There is already a lot of good Chinese DDR 5 memory on the market and it’s a matter of time before Chinese GPU’s and CPU’s proliferate. I remember people in the west global north were sceptic about the viability of Chinese electric cars ever existing just 5 years ago; Elon even laughed at the possibility. Tables turn fast when you have industrial capacity and central planning.
Chinese electric cars were always going to take off. RAM is just a commodity; if you sell the most bits at the lowest price and sufficient speed, it works.
If you’re in edge machine learning, if you write your own software stacks for niche stuff, Chinese hardware will be killer.
But if you’re trying to run Steam games? Or CUDA projects? That’s a whole different story. It doesn’t matter how good the hardware is, they’re always going to be handicapped by software in “legacy” code. Not just for performance, but driver bugs/quirks.
Proton (and focusing everything on a good Vulkan driver) is not a bad path forward, but still. They’re working against decades of dev work targeting AMD/Nvidia/Intel, up and down the stack.
Do you think they won’t just ban the Chinese products lol, this ain’t a democracy bud
I’m not American so I ain’t part of your non-democracy.
“banned for security concerns”
Not a problem for me; I’m not in America, I own a Huawei phone and a Huion Tablet.
Wants to kneecap itself?
Dude, the US is going full seppuku and we’re going to gut ourselves on the floor.
Hard to swoop in with massive tariffs. The few players that remain will just charge a lot more…it’ll become the rich lucky few who can afford their own hardware.
The rest of the world will be fine.
No such tariffs in the EU 🥹
yet
The US is not the only place to sell to
America doesn’t. The Russian asset in the White House and its brainwashed minions do.
Sorry to break it to you bud; But America has a Plutocracy problem; It’s not a question of Putin running the show, but the American legal system being unable to persecute crimes and corruption if it happens to be billionaires. So in essence the system is compromised.
You guys voted him in, twice, with the popular vote the second time. Don’t pretend you don’t own him.
Not an American here, nor a defender of what people did or didn’t vote for.
What I was getting at was the massive media manipulation from outside and inside and the obvious foreign control the Dear Leader is under. With the deadly combination of of poor education, widespread media illiteracy and pervasive social media, our democracies have become even more remotely-controllable for whoever is willing to put the money in.
The US is not a democracy. Just like in Russia, the votes are for show.