The recent U.S. government restrictions on AI hardware exports to China have significantly impacted several key semiconductor players, including NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, restricting them from selling high-performance AI chips to Chinese land. This ban has notably affected NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 ga...
You can buy 2-slot 4090s.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/10f750o/blower\_style\_rtx\_4090\_2slot\_ー\_photos\_and\_a\_couple/
You can buy them from unofficial sources if you’re lucky enough to find one. The OP in that thread was offered one from and unofficial, small batch of AI cards and had to pay about 1.5 times what you’d pay for a regular 4090. The cards may very well be from a similar source to this one.
So “you can buy 2-slot 4090s” is technically correct, but isn’t actually true for most people even if they had the money.
Msi Liquid Suprim 4090 is 2 slot but with an extra radiator hookup.