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Six Pallets of Nvidia Hardware Vanish, Leaving the Tracking Number to Explain Itself
· New York time
Six pallets of Nvidia hardware worth $11.4 million disappeared while traveling from Oakland to Texas. Two months later, no arrests had been reported, according to Ars Technica. The missing shipment illustrates how much value can move through an ordinary freight route when computing hardware is in high demand. For the companies waiting at the other end, the important feature of a processor is not its theoretical performance but whether it arrives at all. The case also places a very physical problem beside the technology industry's grand ambitions. Companies can plan large computing systems and debate the future of AI, but the components still have to make a trip across the country. A valuable pallet does not become less portable because the equipment inside it is sophisticated. The industry's future may depend on extraordinary chips. This particular part of that future is currently missing from the delivery.
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