I had more faith in Kim Jong Un making his own theme parks.
There’s a lot that can and should be done to break the x86-Windows-Steam monopoly, and I wouldn’t mind a huge middle finger to Nvidia, but I do not anticipate Russia doing any of the right things, even for the wrong reasons. At least China’s gonna push for weird MIPS and RISC chips.
The reason you can control drones is that it’s basically a full-on OS that can send to arbitrary system commands. If Russia wants it 100% home grown they’re going to have to develop their own architecture. What I suspect is it won’t actually be that home grown and will mostly be Linux based, but Putin doesn’t know the first thing about computer systems so it’ll be fun to watch someone have to tell him that.
It’s the same with North Korea, they claim to have their own PC OS but it’s just Windows XP with a custom skin.
Taiwan, not PRC. Mainland China isn’t capable of making CPUs and GPUs whith the performance and low power draw needed for a portable console in the volumes necessary. They brute-forced their way into a 7nm process, but it’s expensive and low yields, so they’re using it only for crypto mining ASICs and Huawei phones.
To make a console like the Steam Deck, they would need an AMD64 chip on 5nm. Granted, Zhaoxin does have a licence for X86 architecture (inherited from Via, who got it when they bought Cirix), but they’re still far from being able to make those in 7 or 5nm.
Meanwhile, TSMC in Taiwain is already shipping 3nm chips for Apple and soon for AMD too.
Unless China figures out Extreme UV, like in the ASML machines, or direct stamping, like in recently announced Canon machines, they won’t be competitive with Intel, TSMC or Samsung anytime soon.
I thought most of the major silcon like CPU and GPU chips were from Taiwan, with it being more simpler commodity and board manufacturing being done in the PRC.
We see that PM Mishustin needs only to consider and create outline plans for the gaming ecosystem before the period of execution, which is set for June 15, 2024. Of course, preparing meaningful plans is still a big task, but it should be achievable enough for Mishustin to feel relatively safe standing on balconies.
Good then maybe they’d stop with all the gray market shit that they’re into. Stolen keys are worse for developers than piracy, and Russia is notorious for it (along with other countries).
Those are fun, though. You get a single console that emulates a lot of systems for a good price. Some have cute retro styles!
I got the Miyoo Mini Plus that runs on Linux. It emulates many old consoles like GB and GBA, and can even run some DS, N64, and PS1 games, which are a great addition. Of course you need to tweak it a little with a good OS (not the Chinese one) and a good SD card with a library of games from the buccaneer communities. Edit: It’s not hard at all.
The Steam Deck is amazing, so I don’t think they can rival it, but if they make a better Odin 2 cheaper than the Steam Deck, I’d be tempted, lol.
Oh hell, I didn’t know those were real. I should have guessed though. They turned up in HROT, a very… “Soviet Core” game. If you’re worried about the politics of the dev, the final boss is Putin
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