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Grand theft GPU: $340,000 worth of RTX 3090s “fell off a truck” in China

Accepted submission by Freeman at 2020-12-08 17:48:01 from the land of lost toys dept.
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/340000-of-nvidia-rtx-3090-graphics-cards-were-stolen-in-china/ [arstechnica.com]

Some time last week, thieves stole a large number of Nvidia-based RTX 3090 [arstechnica.com] graphics cards from MSI's factory in mainland China. The news comes from Twitter user @GoFlying8, who posted [twitter.com] what appears to be an official MSI internal document about the theft this morning, along with commentary from a Chinese language website.

Roughly translated—in other words, OCR scanned, run through Google Translate, and with the nastiest edges sawn off by yours truly—the MSI document reads something like this:


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