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This sounds like a great opportunity for organised crime. I imagine China'd be willing to pay at least as much for smuggled chips as drug consumers in many plac
by logicchains 6y ago
This sounds like a great opportunity for organised crime. I imagine China'd be willing to pay at least as much for smuggled chips as drug consumers in many places pay for smuggled drugs, so it represents a huge opportunity for US-law-nonabiding middlemen.
- thePunisher 6y agoI'm somewhat surprised this loophole is allowed to exist at all. More likely companies involved in this trade will be put on a blacklist as well.
- sfmike 6y agoreminds me of the departed where they're doing a deal for the chips. quite the foreshadowing.
- mayama 6y agoMore of a target for espionage or cyber espionage. These lithography, semicon machines are low in number and expensive. Companies can't run gray batch for these and hide the profits, especially when they have good backlog of orders. So, these are good target for espionage, like it already is.