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What is to stop people from doing the same here in the west? Chinese factory's disassemble 4090 and repurpose for AI GPU. (alien.top)
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Here is the link.

I can see people buying GPU, send it to Mexico, and do the same, then export the chips to China. Since China is already offshoring their production to Mexico, the logistic chain is already there.

https://www.techpowerup.com/316066/special-chinese-factories-are-dismantling-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-graphics-cards-and-turning-them-into-ai-friendly-gpu-shape

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What is to stop people what, pulling the chips of GPUs and selling them to China? Probably not lucrative enough to risk the legal consequences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

BIS doesn't have the budget or manpower to track consumer-grade GPUs end-uses.

Weapons for raging conflict is vastly different.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

These sanctions are more political than practical anyways. They're not actually stopping shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Eh, they’re definitely making it harder to acquire, which makes it more expensive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

its slows them down , since they cant buy up in bulk by buying up pallets and pallets of cards , and have to buy through black market where cards likely pass by several hands like a faucet. Getting cards into China via Vietnam and Thailand are going to make serious coin to those resellers that buy them and import them illegally. They have over 400k kilometers of rivers and lakes that facilitate moving goods invisibly super easy not counting ocean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Unless you are the law.