AMD RX 7900 may face shortages in China due to RTX 4090 ban Chinese gamers looking for cheaper alternatives. Recently, there were rumors that the Radeon RX 7900 graphics card series may be banned in China, following the ban on the RTX 4090 GPU from NVIDIA. The rumors weren’t backed up by any official data […]
How does that work, made in China but banned in China?
The GPU core itself is made by TSMC in Taiwan. It’s then added to PCBs in China, Taiwan, and wherever else AIBs operate.
Here the neat part, it is not made in China.
For some time now.
They can’t be made there either
Title says “4090 import ban”, they’re imported from China, not to China.
They’re currently made in Taiwan, no?
e.g. those GPU assembler brands that buy chips from NV to assemble the actual cards to sell to retailers to sell to gamers, they cannot assemble the 4090 anymore because NV can’t sell to them.
Taiwan is only officially part of China, in practice they go their own way.