It means NVIDIA and their authorized resellers can’t ship certain things to certain countries and if an agent, end-buyer, etc in those countries that can be shipped to re-ships to a yellow country then they’re in violation of sanctions and will presumably have their assets frozen and stolen, their executives threatened with arrest, etc, etc.
Laugh now if you want but the US is very experienced with sanctions.
This isn’t to stop um say someone in Portugal from getting an RTX 4090 by the way. The point is to stop not small components that can be easily smuggled like a single graphics card, but to stop the kind of bulk sales of data-center and AI chips which are almost always sold and bought in bulk from reaching unwanted places. Even the US cannot stop some French citizen from selling a gamer graphics card to someone in Russia. But what they can do is identify any actor spending $300,000 on AI chips placed in the restricted category who then resells them to a yellow flagged or red flagged country in that quantity for use in building or expanding a datacenter or AI applications.
How are the USA gonna implement export restrictions for specific EU countries? It’s one market.
It means NVIDIA and their authorized resellers can’t ship certain things to certain countries and if an agent, end-buyer, etc in those countries that can be shipped to re-ships to a yellow country then they’re in violation of sanctions and will presumably have their assets frozen and stolen, their executives threatened with arrest, etc, etc.
Laugh now if you want but the US is very experienced with sanctions.
This isn’t to stop um say someone in Portugal from getting an RTX 4090 by the way. The point is to stop not small components that can be easily smuggled like a single graphics card, but to stop the kind of bulk sales of data-center and AI chips which are almost always sold and bought in bulk from reaching unwanted places. Even the US cannot stop some French citizen from selling a gamer graphics card to someone in Russia. But what they can do is identify any actor spending $300,000 on AI chips placed in the restricted category who then resells them to a yellow flagged or red flagged country in that quantity for use in building or expanding a datacenter or AI applications.
They don’t think anything through lol.