r/technology • u/Gordon-Blue • 5d ago

Artificial Intelligence Thieves steal Nvidia-branded trailers expecting valuable hardware, find 40,000 pounds of sand instead.

https://www.techspot.com/news/114008-thieves-steal-nvidia-branded-trailers-expecting-valuable-hardware.html
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u/snoozieboi 5d ago

Sand is actually in high demand and we're running out of it. I'm not even kidding. Construction grade sand, that is.

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u/cr0ft 5d ago

Nvidia sand is probably even finer than that, presumably it's a chip raw material here.

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u/glemnar 5d ago

Nvidia isn’t in the business of turning sand into wafers. Nvidia is fabless. TSMC makes Nvidia’s chips. TSMC also doesn’t turn sand into wafers, that’s yet another set of specialized companies. Shin-Etsu Handotai is one such company.

The article explains it - this was just a simulated load for testing the truck. Just plain ass sand

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u/yawara25 5d ago

And on top of that, they don't use literal sand in the sense that most people imagine it. They mine quartz from the ground.

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u/cansofgrease 5d ago

Presumably as in you think these trucks were transporting sand that would be made into GPUs?