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Adversaries who are being treated to lower tarriffs than allies.
Cooked country.
Bruh... Literally 1984
This is absolutely insane and no one will want to buy those GPUs.
Just like nobody is buying the current generation because it's insane, right?
Yeah if you think most people are going to care or even know about this, you haven't been paying attention to the last 20 years.
Have some faith bud.
Faith in what? The unending march to tech dystopia?
Unless, of course, they're in all the GPUs that people want.
...It's unfortunately more likely that the majority of people won't notice or care, though.
Once China takes the semiconductor crown, the US isn't getting it back.
Glad I get to be alive to witness communism beat capitalism. While the US ruling class wastes its money on dumb shit like "space tourism," the Chinese ruling class has been investing vehemently into its own populace.
And of course the miraculous Chinese GPUs won't have any tracking inside, none at all!
Oh Senator Know-Nothing....
What are you going to do about firewalls and air-gapped networks? JFK you stupid asshole... GTFO
Next up GPUs require always-on connections and Nvidia requires a monthly subscription to pay for that.
For just $19.99 a month you can have us track your GPU*, or choose the premium ad-free upgrade for just $149.99 a months, so you can enjoy your favorite games without ad breakes.
^^^* ^^^failure ^^^to ^^^comply ^^^will ^^^be ^^^punished ^^^by ^^^deportation
Ah yes let's try to stifle Chinese innovation by ... checks notes ... expanding our surveillance state. Usually we are the ones calling China a surveillance state, but it's fine(it's not) once we do it.
Yeah. All the FUD about Huawei really solidified in my mind how stupid the average internet user is these days.
It's like, everything they were bitching about has already been confirmed to be happening with US companies thanks to PRISM and the Snowden leaks.
There is nothing more American than hipocracy my friend
I can't imagine this would be effective at all. Assuming it uses GPS, big datacenters could simply spoof the GPS signal, and consumers could block the GPU from receiving the signal (a fully metal PC case is almost a Faraday cage already).
This will surely complete the final step of the master plan - the world craves those superior American made goods.
Senator Tom Cotton
Ah. Yeah, that tracks.
Care to tell more?
Famously he declared that slavery was justified because it was necessary to create the US:
IMHO there are a few, very few, things that Usa should forbid their own people to say.
Glorifying slavery might be one of them. But sadly they are not ready for that, yet.
Thanks but no thanks!
...okay, so invest in Chinese GPU companies? Invest in Chinese GPU companies.
I looked into those recently, actually expected the GPUs to be a lot farther behind than they are. The things that are really pushing them back are the drivers and the outdated process node, but there are already GPUs comparable to the lower end current generation cards from the 3 big manufacturers on paper (and even those have 16GB of VRAM, Nvidia 😤).
People will just make custom firmware and drivers.
INB4 the US outlaws Free Software drivers and mandates DRM and locked firmware in all new PCs.
Or desolder the gps module
It would be wonderful if this pushes develpment of noveau drivers. But i don't get my hopes up...
Why would they make their own products illegal in Europe?
