AMD Creates Quad Core Zen SoC with 24 Vega CUs for Chinese Consoles

Re:AMD Creates Quad Core Zen SoC with 24 Vega CUs for Chines... by seren on Friday August 03, 2018 @09:11AM (#17679504)

Is there a reason why Chinese smartphone seems to be successfully exported (Xiaomi, Huawei,...) and I have never heard until then of a Chinese console ? Is it an issue with the games available ? A matter of taste ?

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Re:AMD Creates Quad Core Zen SoC with 24 Vega CUs for Chines... by ncol on Friday August 03, 2018 @09:16AM (#17679536)

Consoles were banned in China from 2000 to 2015.

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Re:AMD Creates Quad Core Zen SoC with 24 Vega CUs for Chines... by digi_owl on Friday August 03, 2018 @09:18AM (#17679559)

Resulting in some interesting dodges around the law over the years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzaRyirU_EI

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Re:AMD Creates Quad Core Zen SoC with 24 Vega CUs for Chines... by seren on Friday August 03, 2018 @09:21AM (#17679576)

Thanks. Seems like a good enough reason to not have a domestic market then.

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Re:AMD Creates Quad Core Zen SoC with 24 Vega CUs for Chines... by rasz on Friday August 03, 2018 @10:13AM (#17679983)

Gaming BANNED in China for 15 years! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDdvY35Av3M

serpentza also made a video about buying officially allowed console games, there were like 5 western titles on the list.

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Re:AMD Creates Quad Core Zen SoC with 24 Vega CUs for Chines... by tjoff on Friday August 03, 2018 @10:02AM (#17679896)

Chinese smartphone export seems to be a quite new phenomena as well.

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Re:AMD Creates Quad Core Zen SoC with 24 Vega CUs for Chines... by digi_owl on Friday August 03, 2018 @12:21PM (#17681122)

Depends on what part of the world you live, and what brand.

Huawei and ZTE has had a presence in Europe for years, with Huawei even getting into the infrastructure market.

Xiaomi is a different story, as they were not even interested in getting their devices Google certified for the longest time.

And much like how Samsung eroded the foundation of Nokia's market by undercutting them on cheap featurephones, Huawei seems to have done the same to Samsung by flooding the market with "cheap" models and working their way up.

Not to say that Huawei's offerings are bad from a customer standpoint, i had a P6 for a number of years and frankly it surprised me with its software bundle. I really felt they were angling more towards being a pocket computer than being a media player with streaming.

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