Neowin News Feed for: Smuggled

US wants to track location of your graphics cards and CPUs to prevent China smugglings

Sayan Sen — Mon, 12 May 2025 19:40:02 +0000

The US government wishes to track graphics cards, processors, and NPUs, as it wants to prevent incidents of smuggling to China and other rival countries. Read more...

In a bizarre tale, stolen EVGA RTX GPUs were being sold by major Vietnam shop NCPC

Sayan Sen — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 12:04:01 +0000

A major Vietnam PC store nguyencongpc (NCPC) was found to be selling EVGA RTX GPUs that were part of a stolen shipment of cards. This was discovered when an NCPC customer tried to file warranty. Read more...

Hong Kong authorities have reportedly seized over 300 Nvidia CMP HX cards

Sayan Sen — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 15:06:01 +0000

Hong Kong customs has seized over 300 Nvidia CMP 30HX mining GPUs that were being smuggled into the Chinese province. The seize may be a result of the recent Hong Kong ban on unlicensed crypto use. Read more...

Unregistered mobile devices to be blocked after October 20 in Pakistan

Usama Jawad — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 06:54:01 +0000

Mobile devices that have not been approved by the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority will be blocked from using cellular services after October 20, unless their IMEI number is verified before then. Read more...