
What you need to know
- The US government recently imposed new exportation rules preventing chipmakers from shipping graphic cards to China, citing concerns over uncontrolled military AI advances.
- While chipmakers like NVIDIA have since pulled their products from Chinese websites, Chinese graphics card recycling factories are dismantling GeForce RTX 4090 gaming cards and repurposing them into AI accelerators.
- Following the imposed exportation rules, the price of these cards has skyrocketed.