I feel like this video ran too long for what it is. I was hoping for more information on server GPUs, as those are where the big bucks are (all the talk of price constraints seems to indicate a primarily consumer market) and you can't just have a guy posting on Craigslist "I'll buy your DGX" because nobody would have any to sell.
The RTX 4090 48GB mod was certainly interesting, and I really wish they could have dug deeper into the market for those mods (as I suspect it would be far less consumer-oriented), but it felt like more spectacle than anything because of the apparent dead-end.
I think there would be a much more powerful story to tell if they had insider information on the shell companies buying server & datacenter GPUs or companies who have reason to suspect they're selling to shell companies but turn a blind eye, and the companies who make use of them. Instead, we just get a short blurb that someone (off the record) said it happens, but no real detail.
Smuggling = Hiding GPU Video cards in anything to bypass restriction.
Corruption = ???? USA and China are in some chip war for some time now so that.
China companies/people want to buy, can't, some guy takes video in Hong Kong/China and USA and interviews random people.
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Sometimes I wonder what it'd take to make a video about stuff, but I didn't think the bar was this low - maybe because I do travel to USA, China and Japan quite often as well as other South East Asia and do pop into data centers/tech circles but this just seems like someones vlog about current affairs in USA.
The RTX 4090 48GB mod was certainly interesting, and I really wish they could have dug deeper into the market for those mods (as I suspect it would be far less consumer-oriented), but it felt like more spectacle than anything because of the apparent dead-end.
I think there would be a much more powerful story to tell if they had insider information on the shell companies buying server & datacenter GPUs or companies who have reason to suspect they're selling to shell companies but turn a blind eye, and the companies who make use of them. Instead, we just get a short blurb that someone (off the record) said it happens, but no real detail.