Chazore said:
Zhao entering the GPU market, or is it really China doing so.
Imagine them entering the market, and all of China buys up their CPU's, making a crap ton of holla dolla, then China buys up AMD or Nvidia via Tencent. I wanna see how this actually pans out, but I know it's China, they like to inflate and dominate over time, and not in the fair way. |
They are partnering up with Via technologies, so I am going to go out on a limb and say it's S3 graphics based... As they share some commonality with HTC which has roots to China as is.
The last S3 GPU was the chrome series which were competitive with low-end Geforce 8000 parts like the Geforce 8400GT.... Basically trash.
And according to reports the chips will be made at 28nm, so will be several generations behind on fabrication technology as well.
In saying that, they made good HTPC cards, but nVidia and AMD are playing a cut-throat game, no way can they keep up with their cadence, R&D investment and technological advancement.
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AMD's GPU's aren't going anywhere, AMD profits greatly from that technology with it's APU's... And they get a good chunk of change from semi-custom chips, a-la, consoles... And some licensing revenue from Qualcomm and soon Samsung who builds graphics chips using Radeon I.P.
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