Halfway sane power dissipation and freaking PCIe cards that fit in normal-person ISV computers. What’s not to like? AMD stopped serving ppl like me after the 210, and nVidia top end cards are priced for hyperscalers and national labs not small companies.
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{
sanctionsHurtChina = false;
americaIsHurt = !sanctionsHurtChina;
}
The above analysis of the impact of the GPU export bans seems plausible to me. From what I can tell the ban reflects political virtue signalling rather than practical foreign policy or economic decision making.
Said another way, this is not about killing the golden goose so much as an entire flock of them.
]]>But yes, export restrictions likely strengthen the PRC’s resolve to hasten its execution of MIC2025, and the question becomes whether restrictions are sufficiently successful in offseting that drive from the technological side, until that time horizon where (best-case scenario) China becomes an ally!
]]>Your are right on the mark on ultimate impact of the export ban. I just want to point out one minor mistake—there was a SXM version of A800, with 80GB of VRAM. We have one HGX A800 unit at where I work, acquired back when it was still exportable.
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