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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 1 year 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 1 year ago

The reason for the shrinking memory buses is the bad scaling of IO with newer processes. The memory controllers on AD102 have basically the same footprint as that on GA102, in spite of there being a gigantic increase in overall transistor density

Ethereum mining hasn't been a thing for a year now btw