I’m looking to avoid American-made goods and American companies as much as possible and this relatively challenging when it comes to computers.
From my research so far it seems very difficult to find computer hardware that isn’t using American company microprocessors. CPUs available to non-industrial uses tend to be AMD, Intel, or recently some Qualcomm — all US companies. Even Raspberry Pi uses a Broadcom chip, and the other up-and-coming ARM chips I’ve researched seem to be American as well.
I’d appreciate any insights in this area, either companies with existing products or up and coming companies to watch. If I had a blind spot in my research and I’m missing something obvious please tell me.
Moore Threads is a domestic Chinese company that seems to be trying to compete with NVIDIA, AMD. Their GPUs look comparable to GTX 10xx series cards. Wish I could get ahold of one to try it out. I hear the drivers are pretty crappy but have been getting better fairly recently. Fortunately, most parts are fundamentally based in Taiwan due to TSMC so you might have to research clients of TSMC to find alternatives. CPUs are a pain point. INTEL or AMD. ARM is cool but until RISC really takes off, your going to be tied to at least one or two american companies.
ARM isnt very powerful outside Apple stuff, but it’s good enough for most users now. RISC-V is the future but its performance is terrible right now and the price is high. If you are planning for like 5 years ferom now, consider RISC-V. Otherwise, it’s x86 or ARM for most people.
The Orion O6 is coming out soon and promises some decent flexibility with ARM. Its not as great as Ampere’s offerings but its good enough for now and much cheaper.