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A customer purchasing a PowerSpec AI90 Workstation containing an Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPU from a Micro Center location in Tustin, California, was unexpectedly required by the manager to sign an Advanced Computing Product Purchaser Declaration form prior to completing the transaction.
The mandate obligates prospective buyers to provide a government-issued photo ID, full legal name, contact details, the physical installation location, and intended end use. Additionally, the strict agreement explicitly prohibits any export, reexport, resale, or transfer of the hardware outside of the United States without exception.
While U.S. authorities have recently intensified crackdowns on high-end hardware smuggling operations—highlighted by the arrests of three Supermicro individuals suspected of illicitly shipping $2.5 billion in Nvidia hardware to China—it remains unclear how Micro Center's form will fully prevent smuggling since individual GPU serial numbers are omitted from the document.
