News US govt warns that sanctions swerving GPUs will fall under their 'control the very next day

[KyaraM]

It sounds like that's the direction they're trying to go.

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'This was traditionally how export controls worked, admitted Raimondo, but said she was seeking “a new way to have a continuous dialogue with industry where our Engineers can go toe-to-toe with their engineers, and we go to them and say our intent is to deny China technologies that can do XYZ.” In other words, sanctions may be readjusted somehow to target capabilities rather than levels of performance.'​

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We'll see how well that works out...

Yeah, I've read that part, but that's kinda my point. They should think before putting a regulation in place, be aware what they want to achieve, and then put out the regulation. Not put out some half-cooked regulation and then go all surprised Pikachu when people start developing something that complies with the very regulation they put out, but isn't what they intended. And don't threaten them for your own stupidity, ffs.

Sure, for the lawmakers it's easy to put out and change regulations as they please, they don't have to deal with the outcome. But the people having to follow them, the engineers who have to reconfigure the cards over and over again. They are the ones who have to bear the weight, and frankly, they should rather be able to develop new stuff than waste their talent on bs like that. At the same time, Nvidia can't just hand the Chinese market to AMD without doing anything, so here we are. Not as if anyone with two braincells didn't already figure out it would end this way...

 

[Ralston18]

Just closing this before it all spins further out of control and Forum rules.