Don't worry, folks. Every time a corporation investigates itself it always discovers any wrongdoings and takes appropriate action.

I think this has to do with the blue wave in America. As someone said here on lemmy, Jensen doesn't need any encouragement to sell his chips to china. He'd even sell his grandmother if he thought that would get him a good RoI.

This is a countermeasure strategy being cooked up by Nvidia. Probably has been in the works for a bit as insurance.

Poor Jensen, if it weren't for the evil chinese honeypussy he never would've sold his higly valuable higly in-demand chips to China! The billions and billions he earned and the kneecapping to the emerging chip competitors in china were just byblows of the blowjobs!

Jason, honey, I need 5000 high performance graphics cards for my nephew. He likes playing unoptimised games and the cards your company makes are so much better than back home!

Idk what kind of flak im going to get for this... but why?

As far as I can tell, the smuggling was done because the chips were export restricted. The hardware is export restricted because it enhances signal intelligence capabilities. The enhancement is purely due to efficiency. The technique of using nueral networks for sigint isn't novel.

The hardware could be reverse engineered, but China is still far too behind on chip fab quality to make use of it.

Like, quite frankly, this is a stupid smoke and mirrors show to attempt to make AI-related hardware "extra special."

Like... we can do what the hardware does on existing GPUs that aren't export restricted. So I guess I don't get why China would spend the assets trying to acquire the chips, and why the chips are exported restricted in the first place. If I was China, I would have laughed in the face of the export restrictions, bought every single GPU post 2023 I could get my hands on, and just run my sigint program through that.

Like, yeah, you're going to consume a lot more power to get the same results, but you will still get the results.

This really does explain why he was in such hard denial about any GPU smuggling taking place.

Also kind of a side note, but look how much publicity it gets when a tech CEO is played by a Chinese spy.

But when half the government and its agencies are invigilated by Israeli spies - nothing.