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Sidestepping GPU ban, Chinese factories dismantle and transform Nvidia RTX 4090 gaming cards into AI accelerators (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Reminds me of when Iraq supposedly imported thousands of PS2s to make a supercomputer.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/12/20/iraq-scores-hordes-of-ps2s-at-us-gamers-expense

[–] teft@startrek.website 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe this is why it was so easy to get a PS2 in iraq. That's crazy, 20 years later and mystery solved for me.

[–] Never_Sm1le@lemdro.id 9 points 2 years ago

There's also the one with ps3, which is more suitable because ps3's cpu is a supercomputer one

[–] flying_monkies@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would explain why the Air Force used PS3s, can't be behind the tech curve!

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It made sense. There were also university CS departments doing the same thing. The Cell processor in the PS3 was pretty damn powerful for the price at the time.

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

and iirc, it had Linux support, so it was perfect because Sony was selling the hardware at a loss to sell more units and consequently sell more games.

when people started buying ps3s to install Linux, Sony made a firmware update to block this.