Asia based Zhaoxin has plans for a dedicated graphics card series
Zhaoxin has made some progress when it comes to x86 processors, but now plans are to enter the dedicated graphics card market also. In the video, a Zhaoxin executive said the GPU products will be based on TSMC's 28nm process and its power consumption is around 70W.
Zhaoxin said that this will fill a gap in China's GPU space. The video also mentioned that Zhaoxin will launch products for laptops and Pad this year, targeting portable devices. Zhaoxin will also launch a multi-core server offering that is on par with Intel's mid- to high-end offerings. Zhaoxin benefits from the "3-5-2 plan" of the Chinese government, which allows high investments. And at the same time from the know-how of the third x86 license holder, VIA Technologies (via Cyrix). The Chinese want to become independent of Western-based suppliers on the market by mid-2020.
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But it will make them independent. It will perform worse indeed, and those gpus are not for us, are for chinese market.
Who wants an nvidia will still manage to buy it, but maybe most of the internal market will move on those.
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If the performance is comparible to their CPU's then it should be bloody awfull.
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If VIA is involved, they have, I believe, the entirety of S3's IP to play around with. (Although that is probably pretty meager.) I remember there were discrete S3 video cards being offered for sale in the U.S. around 2008 ~ 2010 or thereabouts. Pretty sure I recall Newegg selling them. I suppose they were in the Nvidia GT210/220-class.
And, speaking of Intellectual Property, I'd advise Nvidia, AMD and Intel to pay very close attention, and keep the attorneys ready to launch.
"The Chinese want to become independent of Western-based suppliers on the market by mid-2020."
No offense intended to the Chinese, but I wouldn't mind seeing some domestic production of, say, consumer motherboards and graphic cards, being produced all around the World.
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It's not about the performance is about what they can record off your screen.... Have you ever been to China even the slums of China have a million cameras all down the streets...

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On 28nm, it may be cheap to produce, but its performance will be limited by TDP. And on top of it, it will gobble energy in comparison to current/upcoming 7nm and better GPUs.