[TechSpot] US government warns Nvidia against circumventing China export restriction by redesigning chips

[Space Lynx]

US government warns Nvidia against circumventing China export restriction by redesigning chips

Speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, on Saturday (via BNN Bloomberg), Raimondo said her department needed more funding to address China's "rapidly...

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"If you redesign a chip around a particular cut line, I'm going to control it the very next day"​

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But US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has warned Team Green that if it keeps up this practice, she will ban the new chips "the very next day."


damn, never seen the government move this fast before. lmao its all so stupid. AI is garbage and overblown. I just beat it again today in a game of word chess. Useless garbage.

 

[thesmokingman]

The hubris they have to circumvent the regulations, lmao.

 

[Space Lynx]

The hubris they have to circumvent the regulations, lmao.

it's ballsy for sure. USA is many things, but when it comes to national defense rhetoric you don't fuck around boi lol

 

[Denver]

Unlike GPUs and x86 CPUs, there are no major IP barriers for China to create its own dedicated "AI" chips, they can also buy IP from Imagination to have a base or simply buy chips from emerging third parties.

Anyway, it's good to see my predictions confirmed one after another.

 

[Onasi]

Yeah, this will all tumble down for NVidia when dedicated AI ASICs are developed and replace their cards. Just like it happened with BitCoin. Time is a flat circle and all that.

 

[thesmokingman]

it's ballsy for sure. USA is many things, but when it comes to national defense rhetoric you don't fuck around boi lol

They know that the AI "chips" market is going to get a helluvalot smaller so it's pull out all the stops, DOD be damned. In other words, not surprised by douche moves.

 

[cst1992]

The hubris they have to circumvent the regulations, lmao.

Company such as Nvidia, what'd you expect?

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Forget to add the techspot story link ?

 

[cst1992]

Eh? It's right there.

 

[Selaya]

it's ballsy for sure. USA is many things, but when it comes to national defense rhetoric you don't fuck around boi lol

tbh the most ironic part of all this? if you think it through to the conclusion, all those sanctions and export restrictions are like, diametrically opposed to actual national security.

 

[A Computer Guy]

US government warns Nvidia against circumventing China export restriction by redesigning chips

Speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, on Saturday (via BNN Bloomberg), Raimondo said her department needed more funding to address China's "rapidly...

www.techspot.com

"If you redesign a chip around a particular cut line, I'm going to control it the very next day"​

article continues.....
But US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has warned Team Green that if it keeps up this practice, she will ban the new chips "the very next day."


damn, never seen the government move this fast before. lmao its all so stupid. AI is garbage and overblown. I just beat it again today in a game of word chess. Useless garbage.

Sounds like someone in the Gov't didn't get their 10% orange juice and they are having a bad day.

 

[cst1992]

lmao its all so stupid. AI is garbage and overblown. I just beat it again today in a game of word chess. Useless garbage.

At the place that I work at they are shoving all this AI tech down our throats like it's the only technology that will exist tomorrow, but I have always and still do think it's just a fad that will pass in a few years. It's just hype, like the 1000-mile electric car.

 

[A Computer Guy]

At the place that I work at they are shoving all this AI tech down our throats like it's the only technology that will exist tomorrow, but I have always and still do think it's just a fad that will pass in a few years. It's just hype, like the 1000-mile electric car.

On one hand nobody knows how to use it. On the other hand everyone has an idea how to use it. Reminds me of XML and now how everyone wants to switch to JSON after all the effort to get it "right". I'm just sitting here waiting for the wheel to turn and new buzzwords to be invented.

 

[cst1992]

everyone has an idea how to use it

They think they do, but they actually don't.

It's one of those things they market to get management excited, like "let's have all our guys learn this" but they have no idea how it actually works, so it turns out to be something completely counter to expectations.

 

[A Computer Guy]

it's ballsy for sure. USA is many things, but when it comes to national defense rhetoric you don't fuck around boi lol

It's so tiring. I still don't understand why the national defense of the southern border is located in Europe but I'm sure department heads like that person chastising Nvidia for working within the guidelines they were told too, knows what they are doing when it comes to policy and moving goalposts.

 

[Space Lynx]

@Selaya I agree with you in the sense that escalating national rhetoric over some rtx 4090's is a bit silly. Not sure if that is what you meant, but yeah.


@cst1992 the 1000 mile range electric car is a real tangible thing btw and only costs 50k. it's just not something you would probably want to daily drive unless you lived in the American SouthWest. https://aptera.us/

The future isn't EV cars, hydrogen, or even hyperloop. I was wrong. The future is Aptera Solar Powered Cars.

Honestly, for 25 grand, I am considering saving up and buying this. No fuel cost for my commute = amazing, and on days when the sun doesn't shine enough, I can plug it in and charge it overnight I guess. If I get the 400 mile range though for only 29 grand... (1000 mile range is only 45...

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@A Computer Guy would be nice if our government focused on more important matters, like you know, legalize weed, tax it at federal level to pay for free community college for everyone. that way at any age, you have that mobility to go back to school major in something in-demand and start your life over. America used to be about economic mobility for the working class, shame we have lost that. if i could start over at age 18 I probably would have been a dual major, electrician and welding at my local community college and maybe later on got my certificate for wind power engineering, which my community college does offer.

 

[cst1992]

1000 mile range electric car is a real tangible thing btw and only costs 50k. it's just not something you would probably want to daily drive unless you lived in the American SouthWest. https://aptera.us/

I'm not talking about that specific car; I'm talking about how every electric car company claims their next car is going to be that much range but they never deliver.

For example, look at the new Tesla Roadster. 620 mile range, 250 mph top speed, $250k. Still nowhere to be seen, 3 years after promised launch date.

 

[Onasi]

For example, look at the new Tesla Roadster. 620 mile range, 250 mph top speed, $250k. Still nowhere to be seen, 3 years after promised launch date.

I am sure that when it finally releases a quarter million supercar for the billionaires in Dubai will totally be the final piece of the puzzle for saving the planet.

 

[Wirko]

Invidia will probably mention some headwinds in their next financial report and outlook.

 

[lemonadesoda]

Share price goes up. Share price goes down.

 

[lordmogul]

Let's see if that ends up the same way as the eu energy guideline that scaled on memory bandwith (and not on GFLOPS or TDP or something unrealistic like that)

New EU Energy Guidelines Could Cripple High-End Graphics Cards | TechPowerUp

And that went nowhere.