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Chinese GPU maker Lisuan Tech becomes only the fourth GPU maker ever to earn Microsoft WHQL certification — LX 7G100 GPU joins Nvidia, AMD, and Intel as it crosses the WHQL driver finish line, first Chinese firm to earn certification
Rekall IncorporatedWHQL certification could help put Lisuan Tech’s 6nm GPUs on the map.
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So this is going to cause a bit of a panic so one of two things will happen:
- Nvidia, AMD and Intel all massively cut the prices of their GPUs to try to make it so Lisuan can’t compete
- 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.
My money is on number 2.
Matty_r
- 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.
carrylexNeither 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.
Killer57The LX 7G100 is comparable to the 4060, I am running a 5700 XT, if the price on the LX 7100 is good I would be tempted to jump on it. Just because they’re forced to use old technology standards, doesn’t mean it’s bad tech.
God, it’s nice to see the software stack finally catching up to the hardware capabilities. Putting the chips on the board is way, way easier than making that board stable and man do we need another company to be able to actually be able to do that.
FiniteBanjoHonestly, Microsoft’s approval means less now than it ever has, so the poor performance aside it doesn’t really matter.
Matrox is out of the WHQL game? Had a great time with my G200 and Red Hat Linux back then.
AnyOldName3Matrox 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.
Does this mean anything for just regular normal gamers who can’t afford vidya cards anymore? Cause…dang man.
☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆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.
☂️-can’t wait to get my contraband lisuan to run my dumb llms and subpar games
Probably not since I imagine nVidia and AMD will get injunctions to prevent them being sold in the west.
mycodesucks
TIL what WHQL is
For the uber-lazy among us: Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL)
What for? So devs on Windows can test code / models before they ship it to a GPU farm?
The actual farms run on Linux, right?
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The real news in this article is that MS “thoroughly and rigorously evaluates compatibility and dependability” for drivers
Who would have otherwise known
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.
I wish we had other options for GPUs (and CPUs) other than American and Chinese companies.
I don’t really see this impacting prices in any way outside of China in a few segments (if that).
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?
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They did the processor but yeah fair enough, we should have foundries too.
ARM is UK based. Atmega is not ARM based, it’s a microcontroller family made by Atmel/Microchip, both American. An alternative for Atmega would be STM32 which is European. However, this all has nothing to do with GPUs, that’s a totally different field.
Yeah ARM it was, but IIRC it was built by two Norwegian dudes and then made by the brittish. So european anyways.
This has lots of things to do with CPUs, not GPUs (see the top post I responded to).
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.