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Tom's Hardware reports that Micro Center is requiring photo ID and a signed declaration from customers purchasing an RTX 5090. The declaration reportedly has the buyer disclose where the GPU will be installed and pledge that the card will remain in the United States. The article body supplied here is almost entirely site navigation and subscription boilerplate, so no additional specifics — store locations, effective dates, pricing, or how the pledge is enforced — are available.

Why: If you source high-end GPUs through US retail for builds or resale into Malaysia, this is a change in the purchase process itself: photo ID plus a signed document tying the card to a disclosed install location. That paperwork is a paper trail, and it makes US retail sourcing harder to do quietly or at volume — plan on local or authorized-region channels instead. Note the text here gives no pricing, no date, and no enforcement detail, so treat any claim about how strictly this is applied as unverified until the full article is read.

A Tom's Hardware piece reports a former EVGA employee's account of the deteriorating relationship between EVGA and Nvidia ahead of the companies' 2022 split, citing Nvidia's Founders Edition pricing, pricing mandates imposed on partners, and forward-looking technology decisions as sources of friction. The excerpt supplied here contains only the headline and Tom's Hardware membership/subscription boilerplate — no quotes, figures, dates, or specifics from the actual reporting are present.

Why: There is no actionable detail in the supplied text: no pricing numbers, no margin figures, no named policies, no dates beyond the 2022 split referenced in the headline. If you build or buy GPU-dependent infrastructure, the only decision you can make from this excerpt is to go read the full article before repeating any of its claims — the headline alone does not establish what Nvidia actually mandated or what it cost partners.