Anton Shilov Social Links Navigation Contributing Writer Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.
tntdyno nice, once they ramp up they wont need the outside world for chips anymore. Yet in t years when china has full chip independence, the USA is still going to cling onto 2021's "supply chain" issues. covid is a permanent excuse to keep prices high Reply
bit_user tntdyno said: Yet in t years when china has full chip independence, the USA is still going to cling onto 2021's "supply chain" issues. covid is a permanent excuse to keep prices high Maybe you weren't in the market for a PC between late 2022 and early 2024 and therefore didn't notice, but the PC market actually cratered back then. That was a fantastic time to buy, with prices on lots of stuff dropping to pre-covid levels, and even lower for stuff like SSDs. I've literally never heard anyone blame the current PC price surge on covid or 2021 supply chain issues, before your post. It's 100% due to the demand driven by AI (primarily datacenters). Reply
RobtheRobot China had a reputation a couple of decades ago for industrial espionage, stealing the blueprints from Western companies who have spent decades developing them, which would mean they saved billions in R&D and could leapfrog the west in developing the next big thing. Communist countries like China and Russia also have a reputation for disrespecting copyright on just about everything. The country is enormous and its the only country to have access to certain raw elements used in technological products, so they now have the raw materials, the knowledge and the money to pound Europe, Japan, Korea and America into the ground. On the other hand, communist countries also have a reputation for being overly prideful, and have been known to vastly exaggerate their prowess so as not to look weak. I suspect that the story is accurate as far as it goes, but in addition to your caveats I'd add maybe that mass production might still be some way off. Another two or so years, if Korea & the US are lucky. It's all just guess work really, though, isn't it? Wouldn't it be great if all the discoveries of new materials and methods of production were actually freely shared to save the planet? Energy production alone has seen recent research in half a dozen key areas, all of them basically stating that their discoveries mean a saving of 90+% in processing costs, harm to the planet and longevity of products. Sadly, we're a stupid species. Reply
Myself01 The author forgot to mention that the user can just dump the Operating System and replace it with a Linux for better software compatibility and to avoid security concerns. The only things that do matter are the hardware and the price and on both of these subjects this initiative seems to have get a flawless victory. Except I don't really know where is that Maleoon gaming performance really standing. Could it be so bad to become a deal breaker for the entire system? Reply
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