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This is the best summary I could come up with:
One user from the Tieba Baidu forums recently visited a fascinating Chinese factory dedicated to the graphics card recycling business.
The workers diligently disassembled the custom GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards, extracted the AD102 silicon and GDDR6X memory modules, and repurposed them onto a "special reference" PCB with a blower-style cooler.
These factories aim to reduce the custom GeForce RTX 4090's footprint with a more compact blower style to turn them into "AI accelerators."
The typical blower only takes up two PCI slots, allowing you to stick four or more GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards into a rack or clusters in the case of the more prominent players, like the big AI farms.
One set of leaked photographs show a few pallets with a boatload of GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards from vendors like Gainward and Palit.
The GeForce RTX 4090's soaring pricing should be a temporary phenomenon as Nvidia had reportedly rushed as many units as the chipmaker could to its Chinese customers before the sanctions took effect.
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