Almost guaranteed it's a joke, but if any one man has the power to cripple almost every piece of modern infrastructure out there, it's him. Creating a "Zero Day" circuit loop in GPUs would be super easy.
The timing is a bit ironic (or suspect) but here we are. AMD’s CEO, Lisa Su, has been named “CEO of the Year” by Yahoo Finance.
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/amd-ceo-lisa-su-on-being-named-yahoo-finance-ceo-of-the-year-153508730.html
That was my question as well. Nvidia went from literally nothing, all the way to the most valuable company in the world, all under his leadership. That doesn't happen by accident. Regardless of whether you like the guy or not, he is one of if not the best businessman in the world. Period...
This is the first time he’s been reported/called out for having an affair. Has it happened before? Have previous ones cost Nvidia any proprietary design plans?
Once you start investigating that rabbit hole, the possibilities are endless… and scary. It means the guy at the top is a liability...
I have 2 backup GPUs for my RTX 4090 (3 if you count my laptop)
RX 9070 XT
Intel ARC B580
My laptop has an RTX 5090 mobile (24GB VRAM), so I'm set for a while.
It’s just like the drug trade. If exporting GPUs to China is illegal, it doesn’t mean the GPUs will stop going to China. It just means it isn’t legal.
I’m sure the US government understands this. If they were smart, they would tax the ever loving crap out of those shipments.