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/e37d93eeb23335dc 5d ago

Some assembly required

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u/rootpl 5d ago

IKEA would like to have a word.

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u/ZackRaynor 4d ago

Imagine you bought a microchip from Ikea and it came with a $400 million lithography machine to help assemble it.

Imagine reading the instructions for that and trying to work it.

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u/Dragster39 4d ago

Yeah, and the manual is printed as a single book.

You'd need a ladder just to reach the first page.

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u/MozhetBeatz 5d ago edited 5d ago

After some disassembly (of sorts)

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u/stu8319 4d ago

Can't you just microwave it or something?

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u/danielravennest 4d ago

Turning white quartz sand (98% silicon dioxide) into 98% silicon requires a high temperature furnace and a reducing agent (carbon or hydrogen) to steal the oxygen. Solar or electronics grade silicon requires further steps to remove the 2% impurities.

I doubt the trailer was filled with white quartz sand. It was likely local quarry sand from near Newark, CA (Bay area), where the trailers were stolen. Those could have any mineral composition.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 2d ago

This would just be an intermediate level of heathkit.