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chrisdh79@alien.topB to GadgetsEnglish · 2 years ago

Sidestepping GPU ban, Chinese factories dismantle and transform Nvidia RTX 4090 gaming cards into AI accelerators

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Sidestepping GPU ban, Chinese factories dismantle and transform Nvidia RTX 4090 gaming cards into AI accelerators

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chrisdh79@alien.topB to GadgetsEnglish · 2 years ago
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Thousands of GeForce RTX 4090 transformed into AI accelerators.
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    2 years ago

    Why are GPUs banned in China?

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      Basically, due to a rough state of cold war between the US and China and GPUs being essential to modern high-power computing for things such as AI. It has nothing to do with their use for video games.

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      Other way around. The US has banned shipments to China containing AI technology.

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        Aren’t they built in China tho?

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          They aren’t.

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          The PCBs are assembled there, but the actual GPUs (chips on the PCB) are made in Taiwan.

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            So now that they can’t import them, where are they assembling the PCBs?

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          Taiwan

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