• kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    too powerful to be shipped to China

    Ummm, isn’t that where they were manufactured?

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      11 months ago

      Taiwan is an independent country. Any claim the PRC has over taiwan is historical revisionism.

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        11 months ago

        Unless I misunderstood the article, the fact they are made in mainland China is kind of the point of the restriction, and Nvidia could now seek to move production to Taiwan as a result

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      11 months ago

      The chips are manufactured in Taiwan. Many of the graphics cards the chips go into are made in mainland China though – which is where they’re going to have issues.