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

Denvil , 5 months ago

100% thought this meant potato chips and was wondering if they meant bags or individual chips. Surely they didn't count every potato chip??

akrot , 5 months ago

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

Tangent5280 , 5 months ago

Maybe its just the chip, not the entire board.

ClumsyTomato , 5 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 , 5 months ago

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

SkybreakerEngineer , 5 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

robocall , 5 months ago

Come on, south Korean company, you used to be cool!