Chinese GPU maker Lisuan Tech becomes only the fourth GPU maker ever to earn Microsoft WHQL certification — LX 7G100 GPU joins Nvidia, AMD, and Intel as it crosses the WHQL driver finish line, first Chinese firm to earn certification
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WHQL certification could help put Lisuan Tech's 6nm GPUs on the map.

WHQL certification could help put Lisuan Tech’s 6nm GPUs on the map.

  • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    The real news in this article is that MS “thoroughly and rigorously evaluates compatibility and dependability” for drivers

    Who would have otherwise known

    • purplemonkeymad@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      Part of the reason was that windows was getting a reputation as an unstable os. After a bunch of work they discovered that a lot of drivers were the source. As an effort to change that image, they started vetting drivers. I think they have been making moves to push as much 3rd party out of the kernel as they can, so blue screens would only be os issues.

      Whether that vetting continues with ai around is going seriously affect window’s future image.

  • Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    I wish we had other options for GPUs (and CPUs) other than American and Chinese companies.

    I don’t really see this impacting prices in any way outside of China in a few segments (if that).

    • nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      I would love this too, but I feel like we’d need some kind of intermediary standard for drivers to work with. Otherwise, it’s like the auto software industry without AUTOSAR.

    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      32·
      1 day ago

      Isn’t ARM like norwegian but made by brittish? Or am I confounding with the atmega…

      Anyways yeah I bet we in the EU could make some good hardware if we tried, and why not now when the usa has become unreliable?

      • blackbeans@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        ARM is UK based. Atmega is not ARM based, it’s a microcontroller family made by Atmel/Microchip, both American. An alternative for Atmega would be STM32 which is European. However, this all has nothing to do with GPUs, that’s a totally different field.

        • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Yeah ARM it was, but IIRC it was built by two Norwegian dudes and then made by the brittish. So european anyways.

          This has lots of things to do with CPUs, not GPUs (see the top post I responded to).