Thursday, October 19th 2023
U.S. Restricts Exports of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 to China
The GeForce RTX 4090 gaming graphics card, both as an NVIDIA first-party Founders Edition, and custom-design by AIC partners, undergoes assembly in China. A new U.S. Government trade regulation restricts NVIDIA from selling it in the Chinese domestic market. The enthusiast-segment graphics card joins several other high performance AI processors, such as the "Hopper" H800, and "Ampere" A800. If you recall, the H800 and A800 are special China-specific variants of the H100 and A100, respectively, which come with performance reductions at the hardware-level, to fly below the AI processor performance limits set by the U.S. Government. The only reasons we can think of why these chips are on the list is if end-users in China have figured out ways around these performance limiters, or are buying in greater scale to achieve the desired performance. The fresh trade embargo released on October 17 covers the A100, A800, H100, H800, L40, L40S, and RTX 4090.
Source:
CNBC
41 Comments on U.S. Restricts Exports of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 to China
As for buying them in other countries, yes they can, however, China may not like that. Import taxes in China are very high and there are many cases where Chinese citizens are arrested for smuggling computer components through customs.
But your right, if China or Chinese companies want to use these GPU's, all they need is a place to work in another country where the 4090 can be purchased. It's a hollow effort.
And there is a reasonable chance India might get there as well, just much later.
Try catching the runner, the runner has lever's to trip those following like this.
The chaser has espionage and that's all really.
Anyway Nvidia bios department got owned.
There LIMITED tech won't stay limited.
They'll just ship compliant parts , China then mod upto the required spec.
They do have certain specific issues, I will give that (as an example - jet engines, ~3 decades later they are still buying superior ones from Russia and that is changing much slower than Beijing wanted to).I... have no idea what this means.
Ban your game card!
LOL!