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Does this mean anything for just regular normal gamers who can't afford vidya cards anymore? Cause...dang man.
I'm expecting we'll see the same dynamic we saw with solar panels and EVs. Once Chinese companies ramp up production, there's going to be a flood of affordable GPUs. The big question is whether Western countries will ban them for 'national security' reasons.
can't wait to get my contraband lisuan to run my dumb llms and subpar games
Probably not since I imagine nVidia and AMD will get injunctions to prevent them being sold in the west.
bUt ThE fReEmArKeT
TIL what WHQL is
For the uber-lazy among us: Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL)
Good. If anybody knows quality, it's Microsoft.
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Same
What for? So devs on Windows can test code / models before they ship it to a GPU farm?
The actual farms run on Linux, right?
A microslop certification is not the sign of quality that they are trying to pretend it is.