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Chip smuggling operation that sent 53,000 banned American chips to China gets busted — $12 million worth of chips funneled through South Korean company (www.tomshardware.com)

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Chip smuggling operation that sent 53,000 banned American chips to China gets busted — $12 million worth of chips funneled through South Korean company::A smuggling operation carried out by the unnamed South Korean 'Company A' involved 53,000 chips worth nearly $12 million.

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[-] akrot@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Doing the maths, that's ~200$/chip. Even Nvidia 4060 is more expensive.

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Maybe its just the chip, not the entire board.

[-] ClumsyTomato@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 7 months ago

The article states "this operation involved chips made to convert analog signals to digital". So not GPUs, or even CPUs, but specialized ADC (Analog-to-digital converter) chips.

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I thought those were built into the chip wafers nowadays. They still have seperate on-board chips for ADC?

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Depends on the chip. A purpose built SOC may have them built in, but there's always more generic applications for a standalone ADC

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