News Chinese Developers of Gaming GPUs Could Capitalize on the AI Rise

[Admin]

Innosilicon and Jingjia Microelectronics reportedly develop AI-focused GPUs at full throttle.

Chinese Developers of Gaming GPUs Could Capitalize on the AI Rise : Read more

 

[thisisaname]

An article about China and it is not locked yet, I am surprised.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

An article about China and it is not locked yet, I am surprised.

Rest assured that this thread IS being monitored by the moderators and will be closed the instant it goes political.

 

[Amdlova]

I wish the Chinese make a good video card to game and some IA. More competition is great

 

[thisisaname]

I wish the Chinese make a good video card to game and some IA. More competition is great

Going on past cards there is not much competion comeing from them yet.

 

[bit_user]

smaller GPU designers have a chance to capitalize on various types of generative AI

I don't understand where/how they're going to be fabbed, though. For a compute device to pack more AI performance than AMD, Intel, and Nvidia gaming GPUs which can be sold in China, you need to make it on a fairly modern node. From the sound of it, SMIC doesn't have anything viable for this.

Two of them — Biren Technology and Tianshu Zhixin Semiconductor — are focused purely on processors for AI and HPC applications and their GPUs are not exactly meant to process graphics. But these processors need leading-edge fabrication technology to be made and TSMC needs an export license

So, I guess the point of the article is that gaming GPUs could be used to backdoor the export controls, in the same way as importing foreign-designed GPUs could be? In either case, the sanctions stipulate limits that are thought to bottleneck large-scale AI applications. Gaming GPUs can't breach these limits, without themselves becoming subject to the sanctions.


BTW, speaking of Innosilicon and MooreThreads, since they're both allegedly PowerVR-based, I'd love to know how they compare. Is the former having the same kinds of disastrous performance issues plaguing the MTT S80, that we read about here?

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/moore-threads-mtt-s80-tested-bullslab-jay

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And how is the S80 doing, these days? Have they been able to make driver-level improvements comparable to what Intel has so far managed?