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PC Gamer
Jacob Ridley

Man tries to smuggle seven-year-old AMD graphics cards through Chinese airport customs—all 44 of them

An image showing Chinese custom officials with a haul of RX 580 graphics cards.

With the US ramping up bans on sending high-performance PC parts to China—and China now returning the favour—you'd think there would be a degree of interest in smuggling high-end PC parts into the country. This is not that. This is the case of a smuggler trying to move 44 AMD Radeon RX 580 graphics cards right under everyone's noses.

The smuggler's plan? Walk right out the front door of the airport with boxes full of GPUs. That's right, walk right on through nothing to declare with an innocent smile on their face and hope Chinese customs won't sniff him out. Unfortunately for the smuggler, they did.

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