CPUs, and unsoldered GPUs are the most smuggled item into China, bigger than gold, cash, booze, and other valuables. I think deficit MCUs are now joining this

CPUs, and unsoldered GPUs are the most smuggled item into China, bigger than gold, cash, booze, and other valuables. I think deficit MCUs are now joining this list. China similarly sees mass break-ins into warehouses of component distributor companies now. Some MCUs fetched up to $100 bucks from their original <$1 price at the peak of the shortage.