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> There are other components, such as graphic processing chips used in the security cameras, that are not yet banned for sale to China, but soon may be. Most of
by stephengillie 8y ago
> There are other components, such as graphic processing chips used in the security cameras, that are not yet banned for sale to China, but soon may be. Most of the chips are imported from the US, which still allows them to be exported to China.
And here I thought all these components were manufactured and assembled entirely in China already. What's stopping a Chinese company from developing a better chip than Ryzen or Tegra? Not enough R&D funding?
- lykr0n 8y agoDeveloping chips is a marathon. AMD, Nvidia, Intel, and company are decades ahead of everyone else due to the fact that they buy what they want and have been building them for decades. Nothing is stopping a Chinese company from making their own GPU/CPUs (which they are)- it will just take years, if not decades, to reach feature parity. That's not even considering how much work China needs to do to be able to tap out chips at 32, 14, and 12nm
- PuffinBlue 8y agoThis claim seems a little dubious to me. China seems pretty good at 'obtaining' the info they need to give them a head start, plus they're a manufacturing powerhouse with a ruthless determination to 'get stuff done'. They also don't face commercial pressure to release stuff slowly. Sure it'll take them some time, but 'decades' seems to me to underestimate their capabilities.
- mepian 8y agoHigh-end chips like Ryzen and Tegra are not manufactured in the People's Republic of China actually.
- stephengillie 8y agoDo you have a source?
- ryanmcdonough 8y agoThey are made by GlobalFoundries, which have only just started construction on a lab in China - wikipedia.
- dogma1138 8y agoGF is likely to scrap that project since they dropped out of the node race. SSC also put a hold on building a 7nm node fab in China.
- dogma1138 8y agoGF has foundries in Germany and in the US, TSMC is Taiwan. Beyond that the only other fab for hire company with an advanced node is SSC and all their advanced fabs are in Korea. The only thing that China can currently fab on a matching node are display panels. Their IC nodes are still stuck on 28nm and even that is pushing it.
- dogma1138 8y agoChina doesn’t have any advanced fans, TSMC is in Taiwan.