AnalysisOpinion / analysisHardware & Compute1 source · Oct 20, 2026

chinese hardware

as far as hardware we currently have options such as nvidia, amd, apple, etc.

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  • however it feels like these are more on the expensive side.
  • personaly i own bosgame m5 strixhalo and so far its good. i was thinking of upgrade, but it seems to me that the next step will be chinese hardware vendors, stuff like huawei, xiaomi etc. maybe in the next 1-2 years.
  • what are your thoughts on this?

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  • [1]chinese hardware
    r/LocalLLaMA (top, daily) · Oct 20, 11:32 AM
    as far as hardware we currently have options such as nvidia, amd, apple, etc.
    however it feels like these are more on the expensive side.

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