As you most likely know, China produces its personal graphics playing cards. Moore Threads at present has a number of references in its catalog. It affords the S80 and S70 for the patron sector, and the S3000 and S2000 for the datacenter/server sector… But issues are about to alter, because the S4000 and S90 are stated to be within the pipeline!
S90 & S4000: two new home-made Chinese boards within the works from Moore Threads!
Of course, we nonetheless don’t know a lot about these upcoming boards, besides that the S90 is meant for the gaming sector. As for the S4000, it is going to be destined for knowledge facilities, which is what the S3000 and S2000 have been already doing.
The query now could be what we’ll be coping with. Obviously, we’ll should depend on a brand new structure which, we hope, might be extra highly effective… But above all, much less out of step with the occasions. As a reminder, present playing cards didn’t help tessellation or DirectX 11 once they have been launched.
For the time being, solely the Device IDs are identified: 0301 and 0323, which signifies that the playing cards do exist. The query stays as to their situation.
The different main constraint will concern mass manufacturing, since Moore Threads is on the American radar. In different phrases, the corporate gained’t have the ability to have its chips produced at TSMC, since entry to American applied sciences is restricted. The identical applies to Intel and Samsung foundries.
Clearly, solely SMIC would have the ability to produce these GPUs. But as soon as once more, the query is whether or not they’ll have sufficient strains out there. As a reminder, SMIC produces Huawei’s Kirin chips particularly.
