This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Oh nyoo, they'll have to use the open source ones!!
Haven't the common folk been through enough?
/s
(And the open sauce nVidia drivers got actually completely viable, great effort & results)
They could still just download the official drivers straight from the NVIDIA website with a VPN. Or from a mirror without one.
Did NVIDIA stop selling videocards in Russia? The article doesn't mention it.
Did NVIDIA stop selling videocards in Russia?
kagis
https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-to-stop-all-product-sales-to-russia
Nvidia Stops All Product Sales to Russia
March 5, 2022
So, yes, though I don't think that it matters a huge amount, since companies are just gonna re-export them out of China or Kazakhstan or wherever. I mean, it's not like the hardware has some kind of region-locking. It's a piece of consumer hardware, sold and resold anonymously all over the place. It's not some kind of specialized military hardware with four end customers and tight control over the movement of the product.
kagis
https://hardwaretimes.com/nvidia-loses-just-2-of-its-revenue-as-offices-are-shut-down-in-russia/
In October [2022], NVIDIA officially shut down all its operations in Russia as sales of both data center and consumer graphics cards were wrapped up. At the time, around 240 employees worked for the Santa Clara-based company. These folks were given the option to either relocate abroad or look for other jobs.
Furthermore, NVIDIA hardware has been banned from sale via official channels.
Fortunately for Team Green, the Russian Federation represented a minor market for its wide portfolio. Disclosures from the Q3 2022 earnings report indicate that the Federation accounted for just 2% of its revenue and 4% for the gaming business.
Although channel partners are forbidden to sell the latest GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards, Russian gamers can still procure them from the grey market.
It'll probably add cost and some risk of getting ripped off and no manufacturer's warranty, but I would be surprised if someone who wanted a new GPU couldn't continue to get ahold of one in Russia, given enough funds.
EDIT: Does make me wonder about Windows-side driver updates. Like, people here are talking about Linux. Windows requires driver signing, and I don't know if those signatures are region-specific.
Sucks to suck.
Hacker sanctions are finally real.
This has no sense
They will just come up with a new Runix OS with Ruvidia drivers. It might be like the time the Germans invented modern rocketry, the pulse engine and the turbine engine.
It's relatively bad news maybe. Same in China.
I'm sure they'll try, just like they tried to copy IBM mainframes, the IBM pc, the Apollo program, and nuclear power.
They're too stupid to do it, you see, all the smart soviets who were capable of thinking were from Ukraine, which is why they're designing Hunter killer drones in a cave with a box of scraps.
Russians without Ukrainians can't invent anything, which is why the t14 and su57 aren't in Ukraine, the semhat exploded on the pad (which would be hilarious if it had a payload), and they're just generally pathetic failures at everything else.
