U.S. issues warning to NVIDIA, urging to stop redesigning chips for China::undefined

  • 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz
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    10 months ago

    Absolute boneheaded move by NVIDIA. Guess they just saw dollar signs and stopped thinking. What I don’t get is they are already at like 300% capacity I don’t think there will be any business short falls from selling only to US customers

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      10 months ago

      I think it’s quite clever actually.

      They clearly realise that if China can’t buy their chips, the CPC will put the full force of a planned economy behind making their own. Once that happens cheap Chinese AI chips will eat their lunch.

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        10 months ago

        Exactly. They want to maintain their insane margins with their oligopoly. The second you get a viable cheap competitor, it will all come crashing down.

        Of course, it’s a massive undertaking to catch up enough to be feasible. But China has the manufacturing experience, and a government initiative could allocate an insane amount of resources behind it if they were motivated to.

        So it’s obviously in NVidia’s best interest to deter it with appeasement.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      Really, the only big market that is being targeted by the restrictions is Mainland China (pointedly not including Russia because it’s honestly not a very big market compared to like… New York State or Texas or California). Nvidia would have been fine.

      I think you’re right: they got greedy (shocking, I know)