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The Downfall of Jensen Huang: NVIDIA’s Greed & Corruption
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We've known since the start of the Ukraine conflict that pretty much all major SBCs can be found in use by both sides.
Why is this news? This is old af
@nullagent @mhoye this is news because russia is successfully evading sanctions. "It is known" is not the same as direct evidence of circumnavigation of export bans.
Give me ANY western chip maker and I'll show it in a Russia drone.
Imo this isn't happening bc these companies don't care. This is happening bc computers are literally everywhere.
There are a gazillion units of any given popular SBC.
Its completely not surprising to find a super power in possession of hundreds or thousands where tens of millions have been made.
When will Raspberry Pi make a superpower stop getting hold of its latest gear?
@nullagent @mishok13 @mhoye Not all manufacturers have (had) a leadership that lobbied against export restrictions for the sake of hmm revenue? Tbf not against the ones against Russia, I hope, but still.
It just complete and utter bullshit to single nvidia out.
I can easily find almost ANY chip company you want to name with their hardware in a Russian drone.
The reality is that IC sanctions are about as effective as the war on drugs.
In fact this is a harder problem than the war on drugs by far.
This requires near total supply chain control of products which are ultimately ordinary consumer electronics. Nvidia is getting dragged for like a 0.0001% fail rate
@nullagent @cd_home @mishok13 @mhoye They are not being dragged because of after-sale movement of their products, which is out of their control, they are being "singled out" because they:
Actively colluded with shady shell companies to bypass export restrictions, paid huge bribes to the US admin to avoid scrutiny and have investigations quashed, repeatedly lied about known GPU smuggling in public, while simultaneously engaging in egregious anti-consumer behavior for years prior to the "AI" bubble.
Your point about sanctions is 100% correct, but neither Nvidia nor Huang are worthy of defense or sympathy.
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Who knows what they truth is, all we have to go on are flimsy accusations in the media. I'm a real innocent untill prove guilty kind of guy. But sure why not through out legal process, the Constitution and common sense for national security.
Look I don't give a fuck if he looses in court, but take him to court.
How fucking hard of a standard is NOT using rumors as judge, jury and executioner?
@nullagent @cd_home @mishok13 @mhoye This is an investigation not a trial. As you well know, all of those legal processes play out differently for the very rich and very connected.
But the first step of anything like accountability (remember that?) is exposure, and that's what GN is doing. They are pretty far from a clickbait outfit.
I boosted the GN post. Its fine reporting. Doesn't make it true nor was I particularly debating their content bc they get it right, this is a dispute within the Trump admin.
Some of nvidias actions clearly were OKd by the admin some we don't know.
But that doesn't change my opinion on the policy. Its all dumb and wrong headed.
Trade with china is good policy.
National security fever dreams are dumb as fuck even if they skirted. Sanctions don't work
@mhoye i think we knew about fairly current nvidia chips in these drones some months ago iirc. the video shows them at a much larger scale. none of this should really be all that much of a surprise, it's just the scale of the operation that's unbelievable. i'll bet there's a hell of a lot more to this, a hell of a lot beyond what popped this week.
All popular SBCs have been found in use by both sides for years. This is old news
@nullagent @BlaynePuklich @mhoye like Nobel sold Dynamite to all sides in WW1
Having said that, holy shit:
"Within days of this exchange Gamers Nexus exclusively received evidence from the front line of the Russia Ukraine war of NVidia AI Edge Jetson processors in Russian drones dismantled on one of our own soldering mats."
This is the tech-journalism flex of the decade.