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If that would be true why aren't Mac sales banned in China instead of Nvidia GPUs?




Because it's only a superior solution if you just want one box, and that mostly for inference. Once you start scaling to larger loads, it's much trickier to get a clusters of Macs to efficiently process them in parallel, whereas datacenter GPUs are designed for clusters.

Those are high end GPUs that aren’t comparable

Because Tim bribed Trump with a golden calf, or more seriously it's easier to ban a component and its manufacturer vs broader systems.

Not unprecedented though, Playstation 2 had export restrictions.

But it was a different time. Most policies had some connection to the subject at hand.

Policies today are all about brand Trump and brand MAGA.




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