Tianshu Zhixin Big Island GPU is a 37 TeraFLOP FP32 Computing Monster

[TheEndIsNear]

I'm confused. The Chinese are saying that Taiwan is theirs and yet Taiwan semi conductor makes chips for them? I guess money is the king of the world not just in our crap country. Sad. People don't realize how much of a threat they are. It's nice to know they stole enough technology to do this though. We'll all be speaking Chinese sometime this century if the world doesn't wake up. Their thug genocidal government pisses me off. I feel bad for the Chinese people.

 

[XiGMAKiD]

More money in "pro" sphere with GPU than in market for gamers. Even more in mining.

Agree, but also entering consumer market is even more money, not to mention the PR value it adds to their reputation.

I'm confused. The Chinese are saying that Taiwan is theirs and yet Taiwan semi conductor makes chips for them? I guess money is the king of the world not just in our crap country. Sad. People don't realize how much of a threat they are. It's nice to know they stole enough technology to do this though. We'll all be speaking Chinese sometime this century if the world doesn't wake up. Their thug genocidal government pisses me off. I feel bad for the Chinese people.

Yes, money is king. Yes, Chinese GOVERNMENT is a threat. No, we won't be speaking Chinese anytime soon if not ever, their language is among the hardest to learn.

 

[ADB1979]

I wonder how much of the design was stolen.?

 

[Fluffmeister]

I'm confused. The Chinese are saying that Taiwan is theirs and yet Taiwan semi conductor makes chips for them? I guess money is the king of the world not just in our crap country. Sad. People don't realize how much of a threat they are. It's nice to know they stole enough technology to do this though. We'll all be speaking Chinese sometime this century if the world doesn't wake up. Their thug genocidal government pisses me off. I feel bad for the Chinese people.

Let's hope they don't annex Taiwan just yet, but I'm sure it's on the cards.

 

[Caring1]

Let's hope they don't annex Taiwan just yet, but I'm sure it's on the cards.

Groan, bad dad joke acknowledged.

 

[Kohl Baas]

Let's hope they don't annex Taiwan just yet, but I'm sure it's on the cards.

It's more likely on the tracks tah the cards.

China will -or at least try to- annex Taiwan. It is just a matter if time. All the efforts to became less dependent on the US and it's allies are to shake down the economic stranglehold. That's why China is trying to tie itself to Russia and India. Big enough markets to balance whatever embargos America throws at them.

This will be a long and ugly dance though...

 

[Deleted member 205776]

Can we not have this thread degrade into blatant sinophobia and unnecessary political talk whenever anything Chinese is mentioned? Seriously, it's getting pathetic, and lots of tech forums are doing this. How about we be different, and talk about the product at hand instead while keeping your political opinions to yourselves? Thanks.

 

[Mescalamba]

Can we not have this thread degrade into blatant sinophobia and unnecessary political talk whenever anything Chinese is mentioned? Seriously, it's getting pathetic, and lots of tech forums are doing this. How about we be different, and talk about the product at hand instead while keeping your political opinions to yourselves? Thanks.

Short answer? No.

Longer answer? It depends how long will China behave like it does. Currently, there is absolutely no reason to like them even a bit. Its same as hatred towards other group of people, its not "phobia" when it has some merit. People love to sugarcoat it or just accuse others from being non-tolerant or something "phobic".

Currently, China IS the enemy. Accusing someone of sinophobia when it comes to Taiwan or Hongkong is same as accusing someone of teutophobia when it comes to Nazis.

They about as good guys as Islamic state, maybe China is lesser evil, but evil still.

 

[Deleted member 205776]

Short answer? No.

Longer answer? It depends how long will China behave like it does. Currently, there is absolutely no reason to like them even a bit. Its same as hatred towards other group of people, its not "phobia" when it has some merit. People love to sugarcoat it or just accuse others from being non-tolerant or something "phobic".

Currently, China IS the enemy. Accusing someone of sinophobia when it comes to Taiwan or Hongkong is same as accusing someone of teutophobia when it comes to Nazis.

They about as good guys as Islamic state.

Ok, but tell me, what does this have to do with a tech forum? This is not a political forum to discuss what China is and isn't doing. Keep it to yourself.

When I see an article like this and want to head over to the discussion section, I expect discussions about the product itself not how the countries' government is the spawn of satan. And believe me, the people here with the usual sentiments towards China also share a bit, if not a lot of hatred for Chinese people, not just the government, seen it way too much for it to not be the case. My point about sinophobia remains.

We don't need none of that here. Not trying to backseat mod. Just plain tired of the seeing the same crap over and over again.

This is my last comment on the matter, I have said what needed to be said. Unwatching this thread as it'll devolve into chaos regardless...

 

[ADB1979]

Shame that you are no longer following this thread Alexa.

What do we know about this product except for what is in this snippet of news.

What is the architecture lineage, what is the software base, does this have any graphics potential at all or is it a pure number cruncher, are there other products in the family or is this a one off, is this built for a specific supercomputer, will this be released to the general public, will the software base they are using be released to the general public, is the software base open or closed source.?

There is much we do not know.

 

[Deleted member 205776]

Shame that you are no longer following this thread Alexa.

What do we know about this product except for what is in this snippet of news.

What is the architecture lineage, what is the software base, does this have any graphics potential at all or is it a pure number cruncher, are there other products in the family or is this a one off, is this built for a specific supercomputer, will this be released to the general public, will the software base they are using be released to the general public, is the software base open or closed source.?

There is much we do not know.

Not knowing anything is not a reason to start a completely unnecessary topic.

 

[ADB1979]

Not knowing anything is not a reason to start a completely unnecessary topic.

You are obviously annoyed by people changing the subject, shall we talk about the product or not.?

 

[sepheronx]

I dont think there is much to talk about on the product itself as it isn't that well known. Hopefully there is more info and if not, most likely there will be more.

 

[WhitetailAni]

But does it support macOS with hardware acceleration?

 

[Vayra86]

I'm not sure that counts, they worked with AMD to make those Zen rip-offs. If I recall correctly their home-grown CPU attempt when tested was basically the 2010 VIA Nano design expanded to eight cores.

I will believe the performance claims when they are independently tested. I hope they are excellent at mining and really cheap. Then the miners will leave the video cards to gamers.

If they are excellent at mining and really cheap, they will just increase mining.

Nowhere does anything hint at any sort of change when you make more mining GPUs available. It does not do a thing for supply of GPUs in other channels. I know, its comfortable to think otherwise, but get real. Mining is a bottomless pit as long as the projected ROI is favorable.

But mining is not the key issue causing these shortages at large.

 

[Zareek]

But mining is not the key issue causing these shortages at large.

I agree on that point. It isn't helping the shortage either. The shortage is not all from lower supply than in the past either. It is a massive combination of things, record high demand, supply issues, mining and scalping to top it off.

The worst part is companies are not going to massively ramp production to meet demand for the same reason internet providers aren't investing in better infrastructure. They believe this is just a temporary side effect of the pandemic. While I agree to a point, I think the end result is that things will never completely go back to the way they were before. Some of the people who found a new distraction or reinvigorated an old passion for gaming are going to keep on gaming and spending money on gaming hardware. Just like some jobs that shifted to work from home will stay work from home and many, many other things will keep internet bandwidth demands high.

 

[Vayra86]

I agree on that point. It isn't helping the shortage either. The shortage is not all from lower supply than in the past either. It is a massive combination of things, record high demand, supply issues, mining and scalping to top it off.

The worst part is companies are not going to massively ramp production to meet demand for the same reason internet providers aren't investing in better infrastructure. They believe this is just a temporary side effect of the pandemic. While I agree to a point, I think the end result is that things will never completely go back to the way they were before. Some of the people who found a new distraction or reinvigorated an old passion for gaming are going to keep on gaming and spending money on gaming hardware. Just like some jobs that shifted to work from home will stay work from home and many, many other things will keep internet bandwidth demands high.

Like everything this is slow escalation until things fail entirely And then we jump onto the next fantasy. History repeats, let's pray we learn a bit along the way...