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The US government banned Nvidia's fastest gaming GPU from China — chipmaker pulls RTX 4090 listings due to AI concerns, but leaves RTX 6000 Ada (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Can’t they just issue sanctions based on a TFLOPS or memory bandwidth ceiling instead of playing whack a mole with dozens of model numbers of the same chips?

They will have to start banning AMD and Intel models eventually too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They will have to start banning AMD

Fortunately for AMD, their software is not yet good enough to leverage those tflops effectively. It'll kind of suck when that day does happen, though, because it probably would lead to a ban.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Software stack is completely useless for datacenters. Nobody is using off-the-shelf solutions.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft are all building custom chips, you think they need AMD software stack if they bought MI300?

All they need is close-to-metal access via minimal driver.