News China Prices for RTX 4090 Cards Double a Month Before US Sanctions Bite

[Admin]

Chinese PC enthusiasts and gamers are facing low stock and increasing prices a month before the US sanctions cover the RTX 4090.

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[watzupken]

These sanctions will kill US companies slowly in my opinion. This gen, it could be just RTX 4090 for now, but by next gen when the flagship cards get more powerful, I wonder if they will also block mid range cards. Furthermore, the number of sanctions nations keeps increasing, so the market in which the likes of Nvidia can sell will keep shrinking.

 

[Computica]

The 4090 doesn't meet the requirements to be banned as detailed on page 199:
"Note 2 to 3A090: 3A090 does not apply to items that are not designed or marketed for use
in datacenters and do not have a ‘total processing performance’ of 4800 or more. For integrated
circuits that are not designed or marketed for use in datacenters and that have a ‘total processing
performance’ of 4800 or more, see license exception NAC."

If anything it requires a license but it is not banned like the data center cards.

Every article on the net is putting out incorrect information causing panic buying when the real story is that Nvidia is causing a artificial shortage of 4090s, there are cards from AIBs that haven't been restocked since release!

 

[Computica]

These sanctions will kill US companies slowly in my opinion. This gen, it could be just RTX 4090 for now, but by next gen when the flagship cards get more powerful, I wonder if they will also block mid range cards. Furthermore, the number of sanctions nations keeps increasing, so the market in which the likes of Nvidia can sell will keep shrinking.

The article is wrong, they didn't ban the 4090 like they did the data center cards, they are restricted and require a special license.