News Sidestepping GPU ban, Chinese factories dismantle and transform Nvidia RTX 4090 gaming cards into AI accelerators

[Admin]

Chinese factories are repurposing custom GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards into blower-style GPUs for AI workloads.

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[bit_user]

One user from the Tieba Baidu forums recently visited a fascinating Chinese factory dedicated to the graphics card recycling business.

This part makes it sound like they're harvesting parts from GPUs sourced from the used market.

The factory reportedly received these shipments before the U.S. GeForce RTX 4090 ban.

Okay, so they're not really sidestepping the ban, but just remanufacturing components received before it, into a form factor that's more suitable for AI. Presumably, once those units are all gone, they'll close up shop or turn to another line of business. Maybe doing the same thing to 7900 XTX cards, perhaps.

 

[kamehaiku]

Thats exactly what is going to happen. I saw an article that the 7900xtx is on the ban along with AMD Wgpus. Usually within 24-48 hours the retail stock goes out of stock and 3rd party skyrockets. I got the sapphire nitro+ 7900xtx for 989. (Still other versions mostly available as of evening nov 24th) I was going to wait but decided black friday deals on every component is less expensive and pulled the trigger on a pc build. The next day (today) the same card is now 1189 to 1300 on amazon. Nvidia for sure but to see this now with AMD is a bleek future. Aloha

 

[hobbified]

factories only persevere the previous GPU and GDDR6X chips.

Was this written on a phone and then not copy-edited? I'm guessing "persevere" should be "preserve", and "previous" should be "precious".

 

[greenreaper]

Was this written on a phone and then not copy-edited? I'm guessing "persevere" should be "preserve", and "previous" should be "precious".

Makes Gollum sound like a covetous ex:
"My own, my love... my previous!* 😸