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SubiculumCode | 11 days ago

To me it is crazy that NVIDIA somehow got away with telling owners of consumer grade hardware.that they cannot be used in datacenters.

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justincormack|10 days ago

My understanding is this was not enforceable in Europe, and maybe elsewhere

lelanthran|10 days ago

> My understanding is this was not enforceable in Europe, and maybe elsewhere

"Not enforceable" just means they can't sue you. It doesn't mean they can't say "We won't sell to you anymore".

YetAnotherNick|10 days ago

They did it by limiting the supply of cards. Even if you are ready to pay 4x of MSRP, you can't buy 100 of the card at once. Many consumers bought 1 GPU at 2-4x of MSRP.

BoredPositron|10 days ago

Code 43 was a worldwide thing before we found a workaround.