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NVIDIA Sued for Abusing Its Monopoly Position in China
NVIDIA holds a dominant position in the graphics card market, with its GeForce RTX series leading in both recreational and professional segments. It also commands a significant share of the rapidly expanding Artificial Intelligence and server markets. This overwhelming market dominance has attracted the attention of antitrust authorities. Antitrust Investigation…
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Chinese Firms Bypass U.S. Export Controls to Access Nvidia AI Chips
Chinese companies are circumventing U.S. export controls to access Nvidia‘s high-end AI chips, despite efforts by the Biden administration to restrict their availability. According to Wall Street Journal, Chinese engineers are utilizing decentralized GPU rental services and global brokers to access Nvidia’s powerful H100 AI chips without physically importing them…
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DeepCool Factory Tour 2024
DeepCool is the biggest manufacturer for PC cases and coolers in China, and that’s saying something given how many amazing brands operate out of China! We’ve heard some pretty amazing things about the relatively new factory, so when they invited us to come and check it out, well, we just…
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U.S. Tightens Chip Export Rules to China
In a significant move, the U.S. Department of Commerce is adjusting its chip export license requirements. This revision is set to tighten the reins on the sale of advanced chipmaking tools, AI accelerators, and high-performance semiconductor chips to China. The new regulations, detailed in a 166-page document available since March…
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RTX 2080 Ti’s Modded With 22GB of VRAM For AI Workloads
Custom RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards are being sold featuring doubled up memory from the original 11GB up to 22GB making it a more viable choice for the AI boom. 22GB RTX 2080 Ti As shared by TomsHardware, Chinese workshops are repurposing old 2080 Ti GPUs, specifically MSI models, into…
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PC Enthusiast Scammed For Used 4090 With No GPU or VRAM
Buying used GPUs is always a risk mostly for the risk of being scammed, either not receiving your product, receiving a broken product or other issues. Fortunately most reputable reseller sites such as eBay, at least in the UK, have strong buyer protections in place, unfortunately though those buyer protections…
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Old NVIDIA GPU’s Being Repurposed Into AI Accelerators in China
The US has invoked some export control over China which restricts the sale of the fastest consumer and professional GPUs, mostly NVIDIA, which has in turn led to some interesting methods of skirting around the effects of the rules. A lot of these methods have involved repurposing older cards including…
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Unreleased 14th Gen Chips Already Spotted On Chinese Reselling Sites
Intel’s 14th generation chips so far only consist of the i5, i7 and i9 K series chips though the full lineup has several other non-K chips that will be available in the future including i3 chips. As of now, there is no confirmation for when these chips will hit the…
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Smugglers Caught With Thousands of CPUs, Memory and SSDs At Chinese Border
Smugglers have once again been caught at the Chinese border this time with thousands of CPUs, Memory and SSDs at the Hong Kong Zhuhai Macao Bridge crossing. Smugglers Caught With 1,747 CPUs, Memory and SSDs As shared by wccftech.com, Chinese authorities have announced that they have caught a driver carrying…
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China Looking To Limit Smartphone Use For Children With a Two Hour Cap
Smartphones are a fantastic piece of technology enabling us to communicate, listen to music, and watch videos all in one tiny device, however, it also seems that a device designed to connect us has also made us more anti-social, especially with the younger generations like myself. The Chinese government seems…
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Smuggler Gets Nicked With 420 SSDs Strapped Around His Stomach
In another classic smuggling fail, Chinese customs caught a man trying to traffic 420 M.2 SSDs by strapping them around his stomach. Man Fails To Smuggle 420 SSDs As reported by TomsHardware, Chinese customs caught a man trying to smuggle 420 SSDs into China from Macau to Zhuhai through the…
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China Has Banned Sales of Micron Memory Products Over Security Concerns
China has announced that US memory chipmaker Micron Technologies has failed its network security review and has in turn barred their products in the country. China Blocks Micron Sales According to Reuters, the cyberspace regulator in China has stated that Micron products have “serious network security risks, which pose significant…
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Nvidia 4070 Ti Pricing Suggests Rebranded 4080 12GB Will Retain its $899 MSRP.
Nvidia certainly fooled no one when they unveiled the 4080 12GB. It was abundantly clear that the huge specification gap between this and the 16GB model went well beyond just the amount of VRAM they had, and, ultimately, consumers and critics could draw no other conclusion than Nvidia was only…
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Following Lacklustre Sales, AMD May Already Be Discounting Ryzen 7000 in China!
It’s been around 6 weeks now since AMD’s initial Ryzen 7000 processors became available to purchase and I think it would be fair to say that the platform hasn’t currently, in terms of sales, been meeting Team Red’s expectations. – And by this, I mean that even AMD has conceded…
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