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If that would be true why aren't Mac sales banned in China instead of Nvidia GPUs?
by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
If that would be true why aren't Mac sales banned in China instead of Nvidia GPUs?
- nevi-me 1y agoBecause Tim bribed Trump with a golden calf, or more seriously it's easier to ban a component and its manufacturer vs broader systems.
- actionfromafar 1y agoNot 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.
- nodesocket 1y ago[flagged]
- saagarjha 1y agoThose are high end GPUs that aren’t comparable
- int_19h 1y agoBecause 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.