US Government Blocks Nvidia's Moves to Evade GPU Sales Restrictions

[@blakedmc1989RaveHD]

tha US Government needs to go after Nvidia's terrible 16pin power connectors too

[@McDudes]

thats the true issue here

[@sniety13]

I didn't expect the next big arms race to be over AI-Waifu generation capabilities 😵‍💫

[@supking403]

the government better decide whats legal and what isnt

[@ITzDaveXD]

China is losing so much money right now which is the biggest problem, yes they get them but very few people in China truly have the ability to buy it. Also AMD are way better value for the money.

[@kenshirogenjuro873]

Nvidia engaging in this behavior in response to pending regulations made with respect to US national security should not only be shunted but heavily-fined, if you ask me. Bear in mind this isn't the first time Jenspin has gone around finding any way he can to sell to China at the expense of US consumers. He loved making under-the-table deals with Chinese crypto farms, selling to them at mass discounts while gouging gamers everywhere else in the world. BUT...having said that...I suspect said pending regulation to not be in any way effectual, perhaps even back-firing in the long run. Because 1) exactly as you say, they'll just buy them through alternative channels, 2) it could give China more incentive to pursue any means they can of (re)absorbing Taiwan (where TSMC is based)...something they've always wanted to do anyway...and 3) it WILL also incentivize China pursuing their own chip development, which is moving very rapidly, people should know. In the big picture, China will eventually be making their own fully-competitive chips...possibly even accelerating past the US before long. I seriously mean possibly less than a decade. No shortage of racist numb-nuts thinking Asian countries can only copy what white-controlled countries do haven't checked where all their 4K TVs and monitors and iPhones have been getting developed and are made. Or where the brunt of most hardware manufacturing has been happening the last two decades. And then what happens when they do accelerate past the US, the tables are turned, and then they decide to not sell us their GPUs?!? 😂 I've been concerned about the USA's over-reliance on chips predominantly manufactured on China's border as a potential national security issue for years. We are now SO dependent on computers for every last facet of our daily lives now. Every corner of the economy not to mention the US military would be crippled without them. Even while I think the notion of actual military conflict with China is VANISHINGLY LOW, I'd much rather keep things positioned in whatever manner makes the possibility even more insanely remote.

[@HardwareAccent]

Thank you for this comment/post :)

[@McDudes]

I also think this for sure will speed up China's own chip development.