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- gadgets@hardware.watch
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- gadgets@hardware.watch
This is the reason why you can’t find ones in your local best buy. They are paying premium for it. But it indeed is very helpful, if I can get my hand on a few for my build.
They already do. Or should I say would.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chinese-biren-rolls-out-new-gpus-with-77-billion-transistors-2-pflops-of-ai-performance
The problem for China is that like the US, they have to have Taiwan build their chips for them. And the US has told Taiwan in no uncertain terms that they better not build chips for China or else. So even though they have their own designs, they can’t get them built. Or should I say they couldn’t. Since China pulled a July surprise when Huawei released domestically made 7nm chips. 7nm is what the BR100 is designed to be made at. It was thought that China wouldn’t be able to make 7nm chips for at least another 5 years.
That’s not what they do. They use custom PCBs. Even the 16GB RX580 is not a piggy backed 8GB RX580. They basically harvest the chips from an existing card and then solder them onto a newly designed PCB.