My money is on number 2.

I smell a lucrative black market brewing...

2. Nvidia, AMD and Intel give Donald Trump a big bag of money and demand they ban Lisuan GPUs from being used anywhere in western supply chains.

In the current climate, it doesn't seem like he'd have the power to ban it anywhere but the US

Until the West stops restricting lithography machines, or China develops their own advanced lithography machines, we likely won't see Chinese GPUs for sale in our markets.

I'm personally hoping China has a breakthrough on lithography machines to break ASML's monopoly and fuck over all these extremely rich companies, but we're not going to see anything like that happen for 10 plus years.

But in 10 years, oh boy, we're gonna have so much cheaper China tech, it'll be awesome.

Neither of these will happen because the little available data online indicates that it a) sucks in comparison to other GPUs and b) will likely not even be sold outside of China. They are using TSMC's 6nm for manufacture because they can't use anything more modern due to sanctions.

Matrox haven't made GPUs for a long time, they just make specialised cards with someone else's GPU on them. They're doing more than a board partner would, so need separate drivers, but the title says GPU maker, which they aren't.

I'm expecting we'll see the same dynamic we saw with solar panels and EVs. Once Chinese companies ramp up production, there's going to be a flood of affordable GPUs. The big question is whether Western countries will ban them for 'national security' reasons.

Probably not since I imagine nVidia and AMD will get injunctions to prevent them being sold in the west.

For the uber-lazy among us: Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL)

Same

Part of the reason was that windows was getting a reputation as an unstable os. After a bunch of work they discovered that a lot of drivers were the source. As an effort to change that image, they started vetting drivers. I think they have been making moves to push as much 3rd party out of the kernel as they can, so blue screens would only be os issues.

Whether that vetting continues with ai around is going seriously affect window's future image.

ATI was once Canadian.

Isn't ARM like norwegian but made by brittish? Or am I confounding with the atmega...

Anyways yeah I bet we in the EU could make some good hardware if we tried, and why not now when the usa has become unreliable?

I would love this too, but I feel like we'd need some kind of intermediary standard for drivers to work with. Otherwise, it's like the auto software industry without AUTOSAR.