$11.4M in NVIDIA hardware vanishes after a truck picks it up in Oakland
$11.4M in Nvidia hardware vanishes during shipment from CA to TX
Six pallets of NVIDIA computer hardware worth a reported $11.4 million disappeared on a truck route from Oakland to Fort Worth. The vehicle, bearing a food transport company's logo, made several hours-long stops before investigators lost it in San Bernardino County. Oakland police confirmed a grand theft investigation opened after a September 13 complaint, but have not verified the valuation, identified the owner or driver, or made any arrests.
The trailers contained approximately 40,000 pounds of sand rather than NVIDIA hardware.
- jstummbillig
Is that... a lot? I have no clue how much stuff "vanishes" regularly and how much it's worth.
- gnabgib
No one's really said anything about it (maybe the company's in the news for other reasons?), but posted a few times:
Tech-Insider $11.4M of Nvidia Chips Vanished in Oakland (6 points, 1 week ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50394165
TomsHardware Six pallets of Nvidia GPUs worth $11.4M stolen in California in Aug 2026 (7 points, 1 week ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50394256
ArsTechnica Nvidia hardware worth $11.4M vanished between Oakland and Texas (9 points, 6 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50405863
TechPowerup (10 points, 6 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50407874
- tencentshill
These guys have unlimited money, why are they still transporting with regular couriers? There are tons of end-to-end secure logistics companies out there that can do the job. I can't imagine their insurance is too happy about it either.
It's been an ongoing well-coordinated effort, with gear often ending up in China. Hello, where is the FBI?
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/data-cen...
It's going to make a hell of a good movie one day though.
- RobotToaster
They stole three whole gaming GPUs?
- jasonjayr
Presumably, these GPU's have [known] serial numbers?
And the driver sends that Serial number back to nvidia when checking for updates?
For tech like this, doesn't more or less reveal where these things ultimately end up ?
- foxhill
~150 GPUs (presuming 80k usd per card). would fit in a sedan.
- alexnewman
That’s like two cards right?
- newsclues
Wait why aren’t they like iPhones where an activation server enables them post sale?