Overview
- Customers who bought a PowerSpec Ai90 prebuilt PC containing an NVIDIA RTX 5090 said Micro Center handed a purchaser declaration and scanned a driver’s license before completing the sale.
- The form explicitly contains a "NO EXPORT" clause that requires buyers to promise the GPU will not be exported, reexported, resold, transferred, or supplied outside the United States.
- A store manager told the buyer the procedure had been in place for about two days, but there is no public corporate statement confirming a chainwide Micro Center policy.
- Reporters note U.S. export controls already bar standard RTX 5090 shipments to mainland China and that NVIDIA sells separate 5090 D variants for that market, which helps explain retailer concern.
- Observers question whether paperwork and ID collection can stop theft-driven diversion, secondhand export, or component-level conversion to black-market AI units, and they warn the measures may deter some buyers without fully blocking resale.