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The 4090 graphics card was completely removed
U.S. export control rules for artificial intelligence (AI) chips plan to block companies such as Nvidia from exporting advanced AI chips to China. As a result, the civilian consumer-grade high-end graphics card 4090 was also banned, and the entire gaming circle was angry.
According to NVIDIA's latest public filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. government has issued an updated and amended interim final decision.
Regulated include, but are not limited to, NVIDIA A100, H100, A800, H800, L40, L40S, RTX 4090, and DGX/HGX systems that integrate these high-performance computing cards.
It is worth noting that the US government added consumer products, namely RTX 4090, to export control and imposed a ban on the sale of RTX 4090 to China.
Among them, the A100/H100 is NVIDIA's best performing computing card, and the A800/H800 is a restricted version of NVIDIA's deliberate performance cut so that it can be exported to Chinese companies.
But the most unexpected thing is that the RTX 4090, a consumer graphics card, is also banned, which is currently the best performing consumer graphics card, which will cause gamers and video creators alike. Therefore, even if the user purchases this graphics card only to play games, video rendering, etc., the subsequent purchase may not be able to purchase it at a normal price through normal channels.
At present RTX4090 public version/non-public version of graphics cards have been removed one after another, and stores are out of stock. 4090 on multiple channels has a "price jump" phenomenon. At present, it is completely out of stock in Jingdong, and searching RTX 4090 only shows graphics cards of other models such as RTX 4070:
Some third-party stores on Taobao are still in stock, but the price has generally doubled, to a staggering 20,000-30,000:
According to the relevant documents, GPU chips will be subject to export restrictions as long as they meet one of the following conditions -
The analysis said that if the purpose is to play games, the graphics card at the price of 4090 in the practical scene is obviously overflowing performance. At present, it seems that no game can make full use of the powerful performance of 4090, in fact, this card is mainly used for AI drawing and computing power. While high-end graphics cards should be evaluated as computing power resources today, RTX 4090 is currently one of the world's most powerful graphics processors, which are widely used in high-performance computing, virtual reality, deep learning and other fields.
The analysis pointed out that the reason for the US export control of 4090 graphics cards is to remove the limit on "communication speed" and focus on limiting the "performance density" parameter. The move is to prevent companies from bypassing restrictions on full chips by using Chiplet technology.
On October 18, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce answered a reporter's question on the final rules on the export control of semiconductors issued by the US Department of Commerce.
A reporter asked: Recently, the US Department of Commerce announced the final rules on semiconductor export control to China.
A: The Chinese side noted that the US issued the final rules on export control of semiconductors to China on October 17. The final rule builds on the provisional rules issued on October 7 last year to further tighten export restrictions on AI-related chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China, and adds a number of Chinese entities to the "Entity List" of export controls. The US side continues to generalize the concept of national security, abuse export control measures, and carry out unilateral bullying. China is strongly dissatisfied with this and resolutely opposes it.
The semiconductor industry is highly globalized, and improper regulation by the United States has seriously hindered the normal economic and trade exchanges of chip and chip equipment, materials and parts enterprises in various countries, seriously undermined market rules and the international economic and trade order, and seriously threatened the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain. U.S. semiconductor companies have suffered huge losses, and semiconductor companies in other countries have also been affected.
The United States should cancel the export control of semiconductors to China as soon as possible, create a fair, just and predictable business environment for enterprises of all countries, including Chinese enterprises, and work with all parties to jointly build a safe, stable, smooth, efficient, open, inclusive, mutually beneficial and win-win global industrial chain and supply chain system. China will take all necessary measures to resolutely safeguard its legitimate rights and interests.
Source: Shenzhen Evening News