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If Intel make the CPUs in the USA are they going to be shipped to China for final assembly?

Packaging is something Intel does very well and they have facilities is the USA. The rumor is many companies might do final assembly with Intel.

https://www.eetimes.com/intels-embarrassment-of-riches-advan...

I think packaging is still mostly Penang (Malaysia).

Intel opened a packaging facility in New Mexico in January that’s supposed to their largest.

https://newsroom.intel.com/intel-foundry/updates-intel-10-la...

Why not? A single Boeing 747-8F could carry 10M-50M chips in a single trip.

The value of that airplane would be astronomical. I would split it up into dozens of flights just to reduce risk if one of them had a mechanical problem.

They said 747, not 737MAX, so the risk isn't as high /s

Then again, if it were A320s, they'd be at risk of solar flares, so best go by ship I think

Should be fine as long as the chips have ECC

not the new chips. the A320 itself crashing while losing all of the loot onboard

that was the joke

I'm going to call it now, the next big heist movie is going to be about hijacking a plane/container full of AI chips valued at >$1B.

Maybe valued at >$1B, but who do you sell it to?

China of course…

You fly around the world running uncensored llms

https://clip.cafe/the-departed-2006/our-target-a-major-trans...

With the way things are going: a plane carrying RAM chips.

There have already been heists of trucks carrying GPU's, I could see something like this happening.

Fast & Furious: Quantum Drift.

I'm in.

No, they send them back to china to put them in the retail box.

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