I hope their claims are true, because I’m sick of the duopoly in desktop CPUs.
On the bright side, ARM is getting there, plus there is RISC-V that is rising as well, but it still has some road ahead.
True. The M1 chip ruined all other laptops for me
It’s pretty crazy how my wife’s m1 air does. It’s the most powerful computer in our house and that’s saying something. As I have a somewhat recent computers.
I’m picking up an air once the base air has 16gb ram and 512 storage. Hopefully the next model will finally make this change.
Before anyone comments that 8gb is enough. I’m regularly using 10-11gb of ram while working in windows.
Yeah the moment I can get a Linux ARM laptop I don’t think I’ll ever need to upgrade again. The magic that Apple worked was incredible and I can’t wait to see how people build on it.
The M1 chips are the first true laptops that I can actually use on my lap for a full day of work
Seems like Qualcomm is getting there. Latest generation is not bad, though battery usage seems still a not-so-brilliant (according to early reviews).
I’m excited for a risc-v future.
Tinkered with a https://www.banana-pi.org/en/banana-pi-sbcs/175.html recently and… it’s really cool to have that at home, like, it works! In itself that’s quite a feat. Yet… to become actually usable due to “just” raw power but also to be economically comparable to mass produced other architectures from other manufacturers is indeed quite some road ahead.
Breaking news: Loongson chips banned in the USA
Because it’s a race I wish such articles would bring forward comparison points :
- benchmark allowing to pinpoint past equivalents
- when was the first equivalent actually put on sale (and where)
- what’s the volume produced, even if only an order of magnitude
- inflation adjusted (as it might be several year gap) price comparison
otherwise it mostly feels like tech-propaganda pieces.
more competition is good!
Agreed, but their entire fab process was stolen via corporate espionage and is not a novel design in any way.
According to Americans every success the Chinese have is stolen. Because in their racist world view, Americans can’t comprehend non-Americans succeeding in anything.
I haven’t seen anything about that in the article, I would like to see some text about it. Especially from whom?
Especially since they use MIPS architecture while Intel and AMD x86 are CISC. So… probably not the whole process?
On the other hand, even if true, China doesn’t have same view on what “original” means as we in the west have. Vase made in the same way as in 16th century is “original 16th century vase”. Different culture.
Are these chips actually made in China or still made in Taiwan like most high performance chips?
No, they’re made by SMIC on the mainland.
