[ren_engineer]

seems like controlling access to GPUs would be the more likely/easier solution for governments. Not many facilities that can produce them and easy to track the huge amounts needed for this scale of computing

Almost like trying to stop nuclear proliferation

[generalizations]

After the Llama and ggml projects that came to light in the last few weeks, it's more likely they'd have to control access to CPUs as well. Good luck with that.

[kurisufag]

>good luck with that

I don't think they need it.[0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...

[numpad0]

If I were “they” I’d try to control systems with >128GB RAM capacity and clustering aids e.g. 40GE and PCIe bridging cards. That should be semi doable.

[Sebb767]

Except that the main political competitor (from the US perspective) is the country producing most of them, so this might backfire quite quickly.

[Tossrock]

Wrong unless you consider China and Taiwan the same country, which is a pretty hot take anywhere except China.