Grand Theft Hardware As Thieves Steal $11.4M NVIDIA Chip Shipment
As the cost of GPUs, memory, and storage keeps going up, PC enthusiasts could be forgiven for calling the current hardware market highway robbery. But in California, the expression took a more literal turn after thieves made off with half a dozen pallets of NVIDIA hardware worth an estimated $11.4 million.
The details sound like a mission you might come across in Grand Theft Auto VI, except this actually happened in real life, and not in Florida. According to ABC7 News, citing reporting by the Bay Area News Group, the shipment departed Oakland, California, on August 29 and was destined for Fort Worth, Texas. Somewhere along the line, the shipment disappeared.
A truck disguised as a food transportation vehicle picked up the pallets of NVIDIA chips as scheduled, but something went wrong after it left Oakland. Investigators attempting to retrace its movements eventually lost track of the...
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