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I Want To Smuggle CPUs - WAN Show December 9, 2022

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What Is the Deal With Smuggling CPUs Into China?

Tiger Direct, an e-tailer that you guys probably remember from the days of ZipZoomfly, M-Wave, all right? Back in the day, I'm talking about back in the early to mid 2000s. Tiger Direct always seemed to sell a lot of Intel CPUs. The reason for that is that anytime they needed to hit an MDF target, or pump up their volumes through Intel so that they could get funding, is buying like literal containers of CPU.

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