Smuggler Hid Over 200 Alder Lake CPUs in Fake Silicone Belly

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Another story from the dark cyberpunk future - great find erek! (y)
Nothing quite like hiding silicon in silicone.

Yes, they even mention this one with the theft of 300 NVIDIA GPUs by the smugglers from 2021. :borg:

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But yeah, we aren't worried about the prices of computer equipment 10 years from now, riiiight.
 
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Belly? That's not the only place they smuggle 'em! ;-)
As small as CPUs are I'm sure a few could be carried like Butch's watch in Pulp Fiction too!
AMD AM4 OTOH, way too uncomfortable, might as well put a hedgehog up there! ;-)
 
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“Funnily, almost every report from the last
couple of years involved criminals trying to
smuggle Intel processors. We can't remember
the last time we heard of an incident where
someone smuggled AMD chips.”
Belly? That's not the only place they smuggle 'em! ;-)
As small as CPUs are I'm sure a few could be carried like Butch's watch in Pulp Fiction too!
Welp, I guess I am sticking with AMD chips going forward then!
 
They were being smuggled INTO China? Does China have tariffs on these? Were these not modified with the appropriate Motherland appropriate spyware? I'm kind of wondering the details of this.
 
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