Investigating the Nvidia AI GPU Black Market [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3xQaf7BFI

by CaliforniaKarl • 11 months ago

34 4 11 months ago

The video's title is "THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments", which was slightly too long.

rootsudo• 11 months ago

Government = USA Blocking Export.

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.

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.

tart-lemonade• 11 months ago

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.

RossBencina• 11 months ago

Bloomberg had the video taken down for a copyright violation. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44983043

The video is archived here:

https://archive.org/details/the-nvidia-ai-gpu-black-market-i...

discussion (currently empty): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44983041

Investigating the Nvidia AI GPU Black Market [video]

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