Chip smuggling operation that sent 53,000 banned American chips to China gets busted — $12 million worth of chips funneled through South Korean company::A smuggling operation carried out by the unnamed South Korean ‘Company A’ involved 53,000 chips worth nearly $12 million.

  • ClumsyTomato@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 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.

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      9 months ago

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

      • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world
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        9 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