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Taiwan's prosecutors have dramatically widened their investigation into the smuggling of Nvidia AI chips to China, raiding nine sites connected to Supermicro Computer and two supply-chain partners. Six individuals were summoned for questioning, and Supermicro's shares dropped eight percent in U.S. trading, signaling how seriously markets are reading this escalation.
That investigation touches a broader theme playing out across the industry: the physical infrastructure of AI is increasingly a target. Cargo thieves in the Chicago area recently made off with around three hundred thousand dollars worth of copper wire and roughly one million dollars in data center equipment before authorities recovered the haul. As data center construction accelerates, high-value components moving through the supply chain are drawing organized criminal attention.
And on the memory side of that same infrastructure story, Meta is getting creative about costs. With DDR five prices hitting new highs, the company has developed a custom chip called Vistara that lets it plug legacy DDR four modules from retired servers into brand new machines running AMD's latest processors, effectively bridging two generations of technology to stretch its hardware budget.
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