Trump administration backs off Nvidia's 'H20' chip crackdown after Mar-a-Lago dinner.
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from Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 09 Apr 16:36
https://programming.dev/post/28327163
from Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 09 Apr 16:36
https://programming.dev/post/28327163
When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attended a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago last week, a chip known as the H20 may have been on his mind.
That’s because chip industry insiders widely expected the Trump administration to impose curbs on the H20, the most cutting-edge AI chip U.S. companies can legally sell to China, a crucial market to one of the world’s most valuable companies.
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We are now at the point where lobbying looks like a moral option compared to this shit
Lobbying isn’t inherently bad. There are legitimate issues for lobbying, we just have decided corporations are people, and that take precedent over people’s lives now apparently.
I’ve said it before, but I’ll believe a corporation is a person when Texas executes ones.
We have long passed the point where lobbying and bribing were just doing your fiduciary duty.
And indeed, it seems we are back to feudalism and you have to pay tribute to the divine king and kiss his ring.
That has always been the plan.
Bribe or dinner?
It’s the US, why not both?
Oh shit we already need water chips? We’re fucked, they are known to be faulty.
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I’ve made a lot of tough decisions since I took this position. But none of them harder than this one. You saved us, but you’ll kill us. I’m sorry. You’re a hero… and you have to leave