You’d be surprised, mostly because the alternatives simply aren’t sold in the US or EU. SMIC is only 2-5 years behind Intel, and that gap is closing as Intel and AMD have stagnated. The others are a bit behind SMIC, but still entirely viable for the vast majority of use cases.
China is missing upper end consumer and data center chips so far, but that’s just a matter of time and investment, something a massive trade war would provide.
China makes just over 50% of ALL semiconductors in the world. While they don’t make most of the big name CPUs, they make most all the other chips in your computer. Memory included.
AFAIK China has few, if any, viable domestically produced alternatives to Nvidia or Intel hardware.
You’d be surprised, mostly because the alternatives simply aren’t sold in the US or EU. SMIC is only 2-5 years behind Intel, and that gap is closing as Intel and AMD have stagnated. The others are a bit behind SMIC, but still entirely viable for the vast majority of use cases.
China is missing upper end consumer and data center chips so far, but that’s just a matter of time and investment, something a massive trade war would provide.
China makes just over 50% of ALL semiconductors in the world. While they don’t make most of the big name CPUs, they make most all the other chips in your computer. Memory included.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_industry_in_China