China bans GPU imports but permits GPU smuggling
+In a previous post I mentioned Nvidia chips should have a unique ID (they probably already do) and the company should have a way to brick chips in the field (controversial) if stolen. The US Dept of Justice has alleged Super Micro showed inspectors dummy servers to cover up servers smuggled to China. Now, Culper is alleging Megaspeed did the same.
Megaspeed is an Alibaba cutout associated with accused spy Alice Huang. An oddity is that China’s GPU *import* controls are stricter than the US *export* controls. At least nominally. It’s possible that China’s gov’t permits a certain amount of GPU imports even as it pursues technological autarky.
I tilt toward the position that the US should permit GPU exports to China because doing so supports US business [singular?], and forbidding GPU exports hasn’t stymied the country’s AI development.
Prohibition also leads to side effects, not just tommy guns, smuggling, the organization of crime, and career-/marriage-damaging behaviors.
