The chipmaker has been quick to redesign its products to pass the current restrictions, but US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo seems to have had enough.
It’s also kind of ridiculous to think that anyone using a consumer grade GPU is a threat. No one doing work with AI is using a 4090, they’re using enterprise grade cards with 80GB of vram (H100/A100, even P40’s in a pinch). The 4090 is a nice toy for running Stable Diffusion and low grade ERP LLM models and that’s about it.
I don’t think they’re worried about you and I doing that with 4090’s, they’re worried that China will refab the GPU’s if they can get them in the first place
It’s also kind of ridiculous to think that anyone using a consumer grade GPU is a threat. No one doing work with AI is using a 4090, they’re using enterprise grade cards with 80GB of vram (H100/A100, even P40’s in a pinch). The 4090 is a nice toy for running Stable Diffusion and low grade
ERPLLM models and that’s about it.I don’t think they’re worried about you and I doing that with 4090’s, they’re worried that China will refab the GPU’s if they can get them in the first place