US gov to Nvidia: ‘If you redesign a chip that enables China to do AI, I’m going to control it the very next day’

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So it looks like NVDA wouldn’t be able to just continuously create slightly cut down versions of their products for the Chinese market in the future. Like the rumored RTX 4090D and L40s

Thoughts?

via pcgamer:

Nvidia’s penchant for redesigning its GPUs to get around US export restrictions has seemingly been directly called out by the US Commerce Secretary, with a warning that when such a redesign is created, “I’m going to control it the very next day.”

Since 2022, US chip sanctions have continued to make life somewhat difficult for manufacturers looking to export their products to certain countries, chief among them being China. However, that hasn’t stopped Nvidia from attempting to work its way around the export bans by releasing products that circumvent the current restrictions, introducing slightly redesigned models produced exclusively for the Chinese market.

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It’s been an entertaining power play, but US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo appears to have had her fill of the one up-manship. According to Fortune (Via Videocardz), she made some particularly pointed comments on the subject during the Reagan National Defense Forum in California on Saturday.

 

h/t EasternBeyond