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trashface | 2 months ago
And of course apple is now doing its own GPU thing. How ironic if they become the premier choice for gaming. Their CPUs already kick x86's ass, though throttling up all the cores and the GPU for extended periods of gaming might challenge their thermal management design.
But my guess is china would build discrete gaming GPUs if no one else is doing it. They don't rely on TSMC as much and probably not for much longer, and they are catching up on the machine learning GPUs. Since they can do that, they can surely add the additional hardware needed to make them suitable for gaming, which is simpler by comparison, and implementing a decent performing driver on top of that (like for D3D or Vulcan) would be straightforward.
Its quite unlikely the US will outlaw chinese gaming GPUs like we do their EVs - one reason being US policymakers simply don't care about gaming since unlike autos there isn't a massive domestic industry to protect.
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