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[Admin]

According to reports, the Hong Kong-based PC partner will relocate the company and headquarters to Singapore while shifting its production facilities to Indonesia.

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[Sluggotg]

Hong Kong was one of my favorite ports back in the 80's when I was in the Navy. Now it is part of Communist China. I am glad they are moving to Singapore. Singapore was nice back then too but they have very strict laws, (except copyright laws). Both places had massive amounts of Pirating of Software and other media. One of the main piracy places in Hong Kong was a store in a massive mall. They never had to hide it.

Zotac started as a budget product company but they got past that and made some nice motherboards at good prices. I hope this works well for them.

 

[Zarathustra3612]

Hong Kong was one of my favorite ports back in the 80's when I was in the Navy. Now it is part of Communist China. I am glad they are moving to Singapore. Singapore was nice back then too but they have very strict laws, (except copyright laws). Both places had massive amounts of Pirating of Software and other media. One of the main piracy places in Hong Kong was a store in a massive mall. They never had to hide it.

Zotac started as a budget product company but they got past that and made some nice motherboards at good prices. I hope this works well for

Hong Kong was one of my favorite ports back in the 80's when I was in the Navy. Now it is part of Communist China. I am glad they are moving to Singapore. Singapore was nice back then too but they have very strict laws, (except copyright laws). Both places had massive amounts of Pirating of Software and other media. One of the main piracy places in Hong Kong was a store in a massive mall. They never had to hide it.

Zotac started as a budget product company but they got past that and made some nice motherboards at good prices. I hope this works well for them.

I bought Zotac's 4080 and I not only love the design of the card but the performance was fantastic!

 

[valthuer]

Gotta love PC Partner. My INNO3D GeForce RTX™ 4090 X3 OC, has been a beast.

 

[defunctup]

Now it is part of Communist China.

you say that like it's a bad thing. China's tech sector is the largest and most efficient in the world. Zotac will lose any and all tech manufacturing benefits it had by moving to Singapore. there isn't a single nation or environment on this planet that rivals China's tech manufacturing innovation or speed. Maybe India, Indonesia, and possibly in the future Vietnam could catch up but China is so far ahead I doubt it will be in our lifetimes.

 

[circadia]

you say that like it's a bad thing. China's tech sector is the largest and most efficient in the world. Zotac will lose any and all tech manufacturing benefits it had by moving to Singapore. there isn't a single nation or environment on this planet that rivals China's tech manufacturing innovation or speed. Maybe India, Indonesia, and possibly in the future Vietnam could catch up but China is so far ahead I doubt it will be in our lifetimes.

I mean, it is both a bad and a good thing... on one hand, yes, other countries like India and Vietnam will be catching up for a while, on another hand... politics and censorship, lol. And, even without those problems, some Chinese laws make it illegal for tech companies to make their tech more open. For example, back in 2022, the Chinese government made it illegal for any Chinese (or just any brands for that matter) phone brands to let their users unlock their phones' bootloaders, as seen in here: https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/zhengceku/2022-12/15/content_5732079.htm

 

[Mattzun]

I’m surprised it took this long for someone in the GPU business to move out of China or at least have production facilities outside of China

There have been stories on Apple’s decision to make more of its phones in India for two years now. The stories have noted the challenges involved

If they are really ready to build 5090s, the prep has been underway for over a year.

 

[JDJJ]

Hold up..are you confusing GPUs with graphics cards? Because I wasn’t aware PC Partner (or it’s brands like Zotac) was in the business of making GPUs. I thought they were in the business of making add-in cards featuring Nvidia GPUs. Unless they make GPUs for industrial applications (which I could find no evidence of), it seems like you’ve conflated the two related but distinct things. I’m a little troubled that a tech journo for Tom’s Hardware doesn’t know the difference between a GPU and a graphics card. For standalone GPUs, the second largest GPU maker is AMD, preceded by Nvidia, with Intel coming in a distant third. (If you include APUs with integrated GPUs in the figures, Intel actually has over two thirds the GPU market, followed by AMD, then NVidia, so AMD is the second-largest GPU maker no matter how you slice it). In any case, I expect someone with a full time job writing about the subject to understand their subject and be precise in their language. That may be too much to expect these days, perhaps.

 

[JDJJ]

you say that like it's a bad thing. China's tech sector is the largest and most efficient in the world. Zotac will lose any and all tech manufacturing benefits it had by moving to Singapore. there isn't a single nation or environment on this planet that rivals China's tech manufacturing innovation or speed. Maybe India, Indonesia, and possibly in the future Vietnam could catch up but China is so far ahead I doubt it will be in our lifetimes.

China is great at making dog bowls and plastic toys, or assembling other peoples electronics components, but they can’t make the components. Any tech they have is stolen. Or are you including Taiwan in your calculus? Lol, you’ve never had Taiwan, and you never will.

And yes, Hong Kong being a part of Communist China is a bad thing.