Smugglers are reportedly soldering top-tier HBM onto deliberately useless processors to sneak it into China, and the trick isn't new

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by TechRadar / Tom's Guide / PCWorld / Pocket-lint / Stuff at 03 Nov, 20:20 UTC

Smugglers are reportedly gluing $4,000 HBM stacks to processors nobody would buy, then taking them apart in Shenzhen.

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• T2Smugglers are reportedly soldering top-tier HBM onto deliberately useless processors to sneak it into China, and the trick isn't newTechRadar / Tom's Guide / PCWorld / Pocket-lint / Stuff03 Nov, 20:20