China, which wants to reduce its dependence on the west in chip designs, has started to support chip producing companies such as CPU and GPU in recent years. Founded as a GPU company, Metax introduced its first graphics card, the XiSi N100.Developed for AI and cloud servers
We do not have technical details about the XiSi N100, which was developed for cloud data center and artificial intelligence applications, but we know that the product is powered by the Metax MXN100 GPU chip. Having 1-channel encoding and 96-channel decoding features, the card also supports video formats such as HEVC. In addition, the product can play video at a maximum resolution of 8K, lagging behind the industry.
XiSi N100 comes with proprietary MXMACA software stack and is compatible with network models of various frameworks. With a performance of 160 TOPS for INT8 and 80 TFLOPs for FP16, the N100 lags behind competitors such as the Nvidia A100. Company officials stated that the GPU has started mass production and will soon be available in local markets. GPU, which will be on sale in China soon; It will support popular formats such as HEVC, H.264, AVS2 and AV1. It should also be noted that the GPU is in a single slot size and does not have any fan.Metax will soon introduce a dedicated graphics card to gamers
Disappointing players with the passively cooled N100, Metax stated that it will introduce a graphics card for players in 2025. The company also announced that this GPU will support basic rendering techniques and modern graphics APIs. Let’s see if Metax can be successful in the Chinese market.
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