Thousands of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Cards Sent to China Have Been Dismantled and Converted into AI-Purposed Hardware

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Thousands of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards have been photographed having arrived in China only to be converted following the recent ban. Seen arriving by the pallet, these AIB cards are being stripped of their factory-installed cooling solutions only to have blower-style coolers replace them. The reasoning behind this move has been said so that they can then be used in multiple GPU setups for AI scenarios. This turn of events seemingly mirrors a somewhat similar phenomenon that happened during the RTX 30 series launch when crypto mining experienced a huge boom causing graphics cards to be scooped up by firms, and individuals, across the world.

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