Chip smuggling operation that sent 53,000 banned American chips to China gets busted — $12 million worth of chips funneled through South Korean company
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 $12 million.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/chip-smuggling-operation-that-sent-53000-banned-american-chips-to-china-gets-busted-dollar12-million-worth-of-chips-funneled-through-south-korean-companyOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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Come on, south Korean company, you used to be cool!
100% thought this meant potato chips and was wondering if they meant bags or individual chips. Surely they didn't count every potato chip??
Doing the maths, that's ~200$/chip. Even Nvidia 4060 is more expensive.
Maybe its just the chip, not the entire board.
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.
I thought those were built into the chip wafers nowadays. They still have seperate on-board chips for ADC?
Depends on the chip. A purpose built SOC may have them built in, but there's always more generic applications for a standalone ADC