The image of China as an uncreative, uneducated backwards nation of drones good only for assembling phones, hasn't been the reality for at least a decade.

A lot of people in the West don't realize this because to this day there's a vicious cycle of people only import cheap Chinese crap because China has a reputation for only making cheap crap because people only import the cheap crap. They don't realize that China is also making top tier products, because nobody's trying to import top tier Chinese products.

AMD is awesome ^^ they'll rule the land of x86 for quire some while imho. But the problem of supporting hegemony is obvious.

AMDs upcoming GPUs are purportedly on par with NVIDIAs Maxwell, but as long as the prices are the same, we're in the same boat.

Luckily the prices have been falling, largely because NPUs are replacing GPUs as the primary handler of AI workloads - since it's more performative and saves on electricity costs.

But, in a "free market" competition mui importante.