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US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia

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Re: US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia

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The world isn't really going in the right direction and any sign toward appeasing or pacification is crucial at such stage :/ What I am calling for: closer ties and negotiations and collaborative work.

What kind of appeasement did you have in mind?

Probably the same kind of appeasement China does for the US by not selling weapons to Alaska and conducting freedom of navigation patrols between Alaska and Washington.

Re: US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia

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Totally. It's not like I am gonna change my thinking. If anything, the opposite. Enjoy encountering millions of people like me in this world. The silent majority. Often times I wonder why Westerners never really learn that they shouldn't impose their way of life to the rest of the world. Then I look at social media, and forum like this. I understand. They still have their superiority complex, deep down to the bone.

>They still have their superiority complex, deep down to the bone. > Sincerely, A very hard working immigrant who could outwork most of your citizens The irony thickens

Please don’t bomb me o mighty westerner. Just because the rest of the world doesn’t want your ways doesn’t mean you could bomb the rest of us.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/x332z...

See the evil in your people first before judging others.

Re: US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia

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Totally. It's not like I am gonna change my thinking. If anything, the opposite. Enjoy encountering millions of people like me in this world. The silent majority. Often times I wonder why Westerners never really learn that they shouldn't impose their way of life to the rest of the world. Then I look at social media, and forum like this. I understand. They still have their superiority complex, deep down to the bone.

Keep going, tell us all how you really feel.

Please don’t bomb me o mighty westerner. Just because the rest of the world doesn’t want your ways doesn’t mean you could bomb the rest of us.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/x332z...

See the evil in your people first before judging others.

Re: US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia

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Compared to the Han Chinese state today, the Native Americans are in a really really really sad state. Han Chinese is the biggest Chinese ethnic make up.

> Compared to the Han Chinese state today, the Native Americans are in a really really really sad state. That’s not what you said. > Han Chinese is the biggest Chinese ethnic make up. Didn’t say they weren’t.

And your point?

Re: US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia

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You say that like chip fabrication is not the most complicated manufacturing process on earth.

Seems rather naive to assume that it for some reason would remain out of reach for a totalitarian state with a 1B+ population. And especially considering that there appear to be a few Chinese names on pretty much every major research paper released these days.

> remain out of reach

That's not how tech works. They will master and improve on 7nm, and probably future nodes. But the "reach" isn't 7nm, it's the continuous advancement. Rumors put Nvidia and AMD on 5nm, and Apple on 3nm.

As is, they've shown they can get something very close to the TSMC process working [1], partly by buying talent [2]. We'll have to see how that translates to long term improvements. But, they definitely can't rely on that strategy, long term.

1. https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/01/column_7nm_chips_chin...

2. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-27/synopsys-...

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I think it's generally accepted that this was a copy paste of the TSMC process. I think we'll have to wait to see if they can advance this, on their own. As the other person pointed out, a good indicator would be yield.

Only people without experience in semiconductor manufacturing imagine that it is possible to copy and paste a CMOS manufacturing process. Even with perfect knowledge about how a process is done at TSMC, implementing it in another fab with different equipment requires a very large amount of work done by very competent engineers, to substitute some process steps and tweak the technological parameters for the others. So…

> very large amount of work done by very competent engineers,

Of course, and this is partly why they were successful: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-27/synopsys-...

> Someone who succeeds to reproduce a stolen manufacturing process is very likely able to further develop such a process on their own.

And, this is why we'll have to wait and see if their current, successful, strategy will result in future, independent, advances.

Re: US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia

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People in other countries don't use USD to buy Nvidia GPUs, do they? Does Nvidia only accept USD? I would assume they would have somewhat independent foreign markets set up.

It would be a company which would be buying in bulk, which would use USD while buying. What you mention is about an individual buying from an e-commerce site or a retail seller. That can happen in the local currency.

Does this mean that A100 and H100 are not sold through retailers?

Re: US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia

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Eric Schmidt, the former Google chairman, told Reuters in a recent interview that high-end processors should have kill-switches. “Knowing where the chips go is probably a very good thing. You could for example, on every chip put in essentially a public private key pair, which authenticates it and allows it to work”. hxxps://www.reuters.com/technology/chip-challenge-keeping-western-semiconductors-out-russian-weapons-2…

vacuum gapped for the next try?

Replacing the air with brine water (absorbs microwaves/radiation).

Re: US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia

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PRC set new military norm across the strait completely uncontested, and now post Pelosi policy wank in US is how to reset that new balance... and the answer was... 2 DDGs transiting through the strait, aka nothing. Not even a carrier. PRC chipped more away at defacto TW soverienty than US gained trying to boost TW dejure status. >China's final warning It's hilarious when people daftly throw this Soviet meme from the…

I find that opinion to be hilariously out of touch but ok.

TFW literal historic events are opinions and funny meme from wikipedia is in touch.

Re: US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia

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Eric Schmidt, the former Google chairman, told Reuters in a recent interview that high-end processors should have kill-switches. “Knowing where the chips go is probably a very good thing. You could for example, on every chip put in essentially a public private key pair, which authenticates it and allows it to work”. hxxps://www.reuters.com/technology/chip-challenge-keeping-western-semiconductors-out-russian-weapons-2…

Did your airgapped systems get wiped remotely again, after the last time you posted about it 22 days ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32394353 > Eric Schmidt, the former Google chairman, told Reuters in a recent interview that high-end processors should have kill-switches. “Knowing where the chips go is probably a very good thing. [...]

Not my air-gapped again, but my phone is indeed interfered with to dissuade me from posting. Thanks for the concern.
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