Woman fakes pregnancy to smuggle hundreds of CPUs, iPhones into China
The smuggling incidents are part of a significant gray market for semiconductors in China that popped up in 2020 when disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic made chips hard to come by. While some chip shortages have abated elsewhere, the supply situation in China has become more complicated due toAccording to, China's semiconductor gray market is made up of hundreds of resellers who have been known to sell second-hand or antiquated chips for as much as 500 times their original cost.
As for the iPhones, smuggling such devices into mainland China has been a thing for quite some time due to higher import taxes that them more expensive than in surrounding areas like Hong Kong. As they have with computer chips, smugglers have tried to get the Apple devices past customs officials by strapping a bunch of them to their body, like this guy whoNow that we can check"woman faking pregnancy to smuggle chips and phones" off the list, we wonder what other creative ways people will try to smuggle high-tech goods. No doubt there are successful examples we'll never hear about.
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