Engineers read standards as technical documents. They're the written record of what a room full of competitors could agree to, which explains most of their stranger features and tells you exactly where to apply pressure.
Since October 2022 the specification of an accelerator you are permitted to buy has been written partly in Washington, in units of processing power and interconnect bandwidth. Export control used to be a legal department's problem. It is now a line in the architecture, and it is the first time in this notebook's span that a chip's spec sheet has been set by policy.
Every platform eventually works out that the boundary it controls is worth more than the product inside it. Which is the very reason the boundary should be the thing you specify.
