

Sounds more to me like a Mafia style of “pay us for protection or you will need protection from us”.
Looking forward to Gamers Nexus documentary on how China black markets these now still banned GPUs to get some further insight on this “gold rush” on this particular silicon.
Funny that the US Government says “we don’t want China to have advanced GPUs for AI workloads, because we loose advantage” can be bought for 15% insurance money.