Even if they aren’t “show-stoppers”, it’s great to see more alternatives emerging. Shouldn’t the free market love more competition?
People seem to be arguing that $375 is too expensive for a board, but are they just missing the fact that it’s a bundle with the CPU and cooler? The 3A6000 apparently is roughly equivalent to an intel 10100. (which is about $100 MSRP these days). DDR4 is fine for most people’s use cases, and it seems like it has enough PCI and nvme slots that anybody would really need. It also pulls less power than most intel chipsets, which could definitely be of interest to people.
You aren’t building a high end video editing or gaming rig with this, but it seems like it’d be a perfectly respectable every day use machine. Which is exactly the type of chips I would expect them to make first.
I would not be surprised if we see Lonsoon continue to make more and more competitive chips going forward too.
I am not sure if these are currently (ongoing inflation woes aside) competitive enough from a western market perspective given the built-in sinophobia; they have to be exceptionally good value for quality or have no meaningful competition for a chinese name brand (security cameras such as Dahua as an example amongst others, and another tangent example would be Polestar which though is owned by Geely is considered “swedish” ). However, I don’t think that’s the point; like you said these may be the beginning of much more competitive products given track records in all other fields.
If one takes a less eurocentric view; the above board/cpu bundle is nothing short of amazing. A middle income country while undergoing military seige, sanctions and hybrid wars is able to produce and sell a consumer product higher in the tech-chain in a market that openly declares the producing country a national enemy is market strategy all of these MBAs could not concuct in their wildest dreams. And obviously this is not the only - let alone first - example of this.
It’s almost as if marxists know how to play in the game of capitalism better than liberals through a deeper and more meaningful understanding of the system.
Ironically one of the best investor’s handbook over the past century still remains to be Das Kapital.
Even if they aren’t “show-stoppers”, it’s great to see more alternatives emerging. Shouldn’t the free market love more competition?
People seem to be arguing that $375 is too expensive for a board, but are they just missing the fact that it’s a bundle with the CPU and cooler? The 3A6000 apparently is roughly equivalent to an intel 10100. (which is about $100 MSRP these days). DDR4 is fine for most people’s use cases, and it seems like it has enough PCI and nvme slots that anybody would really need. It also pulls less power than most intel chipsets, which could definitely be of interest to people.
You aren’t building a high end video editing or gaming rig with this, but it seems like it’d be a perfectly respectable every day use machine. Which is exactly the type of chips I would expect them to make first.
I would not be surprised if we see Lonsoon continue to make more and more competitive chips going forward too.
I am not sure if these are currently (ongoing inflation woes aside) competitive enough from a western market perspective given the built-in sinophobia; they have to be exceptionally good value for quality or have no meaningful competition for a chinese name brand (security cameras such as Dahua as an example amongst others, and another tangent example would be Polestar which though is owned by Geely is considered “swedish” ). However, I don’t think that’s the point; like you said these may be the beginning of much more competitive products given track records in all other fields.
If one takes a less eurocentric view; the above board/cpu bundle is nothing short of amazing. A middle income country while undergoing military seige, sanctions and hybrid wars is able to produce and sell a consumer product higher in the tech-chain in a market that openly declares the producing country a national enemy is market strategy all of these MBAs could not concuct in their wildest dreams. And obviously this is not the only - let alone first - example of this.
It’s almost as if marxists know how to play in the game of capitalism better than liberals through a deeper and more meaningful understanding of the system.
Ironically one of the best investor’s handbook over the past century still remains to be Das Kapital.