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$11.4M in Nvidia hardware vanishes during shipment from CA to TX

$11.4M in Nvidia hardware vanishes during shipment from CA to TX

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Comments (135)

  • jstummbillig
    Is that... a lot? I have no clue how much stuff "vanishes" regularly and how much it's worth.
  • gnabgib
    No one's really said anything about it (maybe the company's in the news for other reasons?), but posted a few times:Tech-Insider $11.4M of Nvidia Chips Vanished in Oakland (6 points, 1 week ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50394165TomsHardware Six pallets of Nvidia GPUs worth $11.4M stolen in California in Aug 2026 (7 points, 1 week ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50394256ArsTechnica Nvidia hardware worth $11.4M vanished between Oakland and Texas (9 points, 6 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50405863TechPowerup (10 points, 6 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50407874
  • tencentshill
    These guys have unlimited money, why are they still transporting with regular couriers? There are tons of end-to-end secure logistics companies out there that can do the job. I can't imagine their insurance is too happy about it either.It's been an ongoing well-coordinated effort, with gear often ending up in China. Hello, where is the FBI?https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/data-cen...It's going to make a hell of a good movie one day though.
  • RobotToaster
    They stole three whole gaming GPUs?
  • jasonjayr
    Presumably, these GPU's have [known] serial numbers?And the driver sends that Serial number back to nvidia when checking for updates?For tech like this, doesn't more or less reveal where these things ultimately end up ?
  • foxhill
    ~150 GPUs (presuming 80k usd per card). would fit in a sedan.
  • alexnewman
    That’s like two cards right?
  • newsclues
    Wait why aren’t they like iPhones where an activation server enables them post sale?
  • pablok2
    Toretto...
  • treebeard901
    Let's assume that Lutnick, Trump and even Jensen Huang were all making money on the side by using their combined involvement to bypass export controls. The $25 million ballroom donation, and likely other forms of quid pro quo to be discovered by a pending investigation. If Trump was informed twice that she was a "spy" over the course of a year, and did nothing, and Lutnick failed to add Megaspeed and others to the export control lists, and the ballroom donation was made... It seems clear to assume that this lost shipment was also being tracked by the Feds and even more likely, they know exactly where it is now. The timing of it all would be too coincidental to not be connected. And if this is the case, all of the above were just caught red handed in an elaborate form of public corruption and quid pro quo that goes from nVidia, through the Commerce Dept and directly to the President. I'm sure there is much more to come on this story...
  • kouru225
    Without Lord Jensen Huang, The Nvidia Empire is weak and vulnerable. The vultures have descended to scavenge before a new successor is sworn in. Take what you can, impoverished filth! You shall only incur the wrath of our new righteous GPU Emperor!
  • spike021
    Better find out where Dominic Toretto is.
  • paxy
    So six pallets of a shipment got stolen? Is this really news other than having Nvidia on the label?
  • chasd00
    Last sentence of the article “Regardless of how this shipment disappeared, carrier verification, shipment visibility and communication remain critical throughout transportation.”Ugh the evidence suggests otherwise. You’d think $11M in high demand scarce cargo would get a little more attention as far as security goes.
  • LogicFailsMe
    I had my order for a bed frame from Amazon diverted to some guy's house two cities over a few months back. I'm sure that wasn't the only he "received."
  • blobbers
    96B in revenue... 11.4M stolen 0.01875%
  • xlayn
    If those things are not found someone is going to get F hard... by a spy
  • nstj
    That’s 3 GPU’s gone forever
  • jrflowers
    A single gamer’s pc gets stolen and it is news
  • jansan
    At current prices that is a quarter of a semi loaded with RTX 5090 boxes.
  • madaxe_again
    With what we now know, it’s obvious that Huang organised this in collaboration with the Hong Kong triads, probably in exchange for cocaine and prostitutes.
  • hulitu
    > $11.4M in Nvidia hardware vanishes2 video cards ?
  • mococa
    Again?
  • Qision
    Someone is now ready to run GTA VI
  • bdangubic
    so like two chips? :)
  • DonHopkins
    Oh no, it's Blue State on Blue State crime!
  • mihaaly
    I am bad at geography. Is Southern California close to China? Please help. ;-)But anyhow, when it is a data-center GPU shipment then no need for trucks, a single van would do.