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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)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People here glossing over one very big factor - there is already a large chip salvaging/recycling industry in China.

All the new X79, X99, etc mobos on aliexpress, taobao and so on, come from taking old decommissioned boards' chipsets and resoldering them onto new ones. Same deal with many mobile/laptop dGPUs and CPUs, often saving functional chips from landfill. And unfortunately also behind the occurrences of those "fake" memory and NAND products.

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

If the product works and offered for honestly cheaper, this sounds like a win for the environment

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

Depends how much they expend in the process...that still takes energy and materials, many of which are single use.

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

newer chips take less energy for the same computation so no

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

Anything NEW usually takes up a significant amount of resource to make.