Chinese GPU Makers Aiming for 5 and 7 nm GPUs in 2022

[TheLostSwede]

According to DigiTimes, several Chinese GPU makers are aiming to build GPUs using 5 or 7 nm nodes this year, something that might be a challenge for them, considering that TSMC's key customers are already said to have pre-paid TSMC to get preferential access to these nodes. The companies in question are Innosilicon, who works with Imagination Technologies IP, Changsha Jingjia Microelectronics and Biren Technology, all of which are largely unknown players in the GPU market space.

Innosilicon's Fantasy One is said to offer performance similar to GeForce RTX 2070, which means it might even be a competitor for Intel's Arc GPUs, assuming the Fantasy One doesn't end up being a pipe dream. Changsha Jingjia Microelectronics is said to have announced it first GPU back in December last year with the JM9 series, which is said to offer around 80 percent of the performance of a GeForce GTX 950, which puts it in the office PC category these days and almost make you wonder why they bothered. Finally Biren Technology announced the BR100 in October last year and it's apparently already manufactured on TSMC's 7 nm node, although no word on performance is available. The bigger question is if any of these products will have any impact in the GPU market, since at best, they might offload some customers in the PRC from buying GPUs from AMD, Intel and Nvidia, until these companies have proven that they can deliver viable drivers alongside their hardware.



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[TheinsanegamerN]

I'm all for it. Let's see some chinese designed GPUs.

Hell I'd be all for china steealing the process for TSMC's nodes at this point to break up the pricing monopoly they have on the market.

 

[Divide Overflow]

Are they just claiming the fabs in Taiwan?

 

[nienorgt]

I'm always glad to see new competitors, but from China...?
AFAIK, China competitors in traditional computing technologies (for example the x86 CPU that I can't remember the name) are always limited to the Chinese market and built not to be a real competitor but to allow China to break away from western technologies and build self reliance. Therefore we won't see any benefits from this new upstart of GPU makers.

 

[the54thvoid]

I'm always glad to see new competitors, but from China...?
AFAIK, China competitors in traditional computing technologies (for example the x86 CPU that I can't remember the name) are always limited to the Chinese market and built not to be a real competitor but to allow China to break away from western technologies and build self reliance. Therefore we won't see any benefits from this new upstart of GPU makers.

This is fairly on point. And just imagine an enforced market (because they can) of 1.4 billion... Some clever business will be required to tap into that closed ecosphere.

 

[Chomiq]

I read Makers as Miners.

 

[Vayra86]

Well, they have 'Fantasy', that is for sure.

 

[Caring1]

The title should say "GPU Manufacturers in China".
Chinese GPU makers can be in any country where they are made.

 

[Space Lynx]

I'm all for it. Let's see some chinese designed GPUs.

Hell I'd be all for china steealing the process for TSMC's nodes at this point to break up the pricing monopoly they have on the market.

I'd rather game on my gtx 1070 for ten more years than let CCP drivers onto my PC. lol

 

[arni-gx]

so, this new gpu for pc dekstop from china will challenge those intel xe gpu 1070 ti 16gb......cool.....

 

[gsvelto]

I'm all for it. Let's see some chinese designed GPUs.

These aren't designed in China, yhey use Imagination Technology's IP. They're basically desktop PowerVRs (or modern ones if you're old enough to remember when those shipped in desktop cards).