Sidestepping GPU ban, Chinese factories dismantle and transform Nvidia RTX 4090 gaming cards into AI accelerators
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Thousands of GeForce RTX 4090 transformed into AI accelerators.

This is the reason why you can’t find ones in your local best buy. They are paying premium for it. But it indeed is very helpful, if I can get my hand on a few for my build.

  • fallingdowndizzyvrBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    China needs to start pumping out their own dedicated AI accelerator cards.

    They already do. Or should I say would.

    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chinese-biren-rolls-out-new-gpus-with-77-billion-transistors-2-pflops-of-ai-performance

    The problem for China is that like the US, they have to have Taiwan build their chips for them. And the US has told Taiwan in no uncertain terms that they better not build chips for China or else. So even though they have their own designs, they can’t get them built. Or should I say they couldn’t. Since China pulled a July surprise when Huawei released domestically made 7nm chips. 7nm is what the BR100 is designed to be made at. It was thought that China wouldn’t be able to make 7nm chips for at least another 5 years.

    Having to run multiple giant GPUs in parallel instead of simply soldering more RAM chips onto the board is extremely wasteful.

    That’s not what they do. They use custom PCBs. Even the 16GB RX580 is not a piggy backed 8GB RX580. They basically harvest the chips from an existing card and then solder them onto a newly designed PCB.