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Will the US compensate NVIDIA for this?

No, this is part of the deal. You get benefits of being an American company, but you also get the disadvantages.

It may help them -- NVIDIA is banned but not AMD GPUs. This sort-of proves that AMDs are toys, and NVIDIA is for serious work

> This sort-of proves that AMDs are toys, and NVIDIA is for serious work

https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2022/06/

AMD have been going for HPC and Nvidia AI, but hpc isn't that cool anymore.

Traditional hpc needs a general purpose machine, AI benefits much more from clever but immutable additional hardware.

ROCm does need some work, honestly.

AMD's data center chips are also getting the ban

https://www.reuters.com/technology/amd-says-us-told-it-stop-...

Also applies to AMD: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/U.S.-ti...

I’m sure there’s a fairly large federal procurement budget allocation for those chips…

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