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To: StockMan who wrote (1819)	10/29/1997 7:02:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 6843

Stockman; This recalls an incident years ago when US customs found that common 7400 series chips had been copied so precisely by the Russians that the edge marks from the dies were also copied. This was featured on 60 minutes as an example. It was only after the fact that it was found that the russians were buying dice from hybrid makers in quantity and shipping them by UPS to a point near the russian consulate and then out by diplomatic bag. A lot of dice fit in one. In effect the border is an absolute sieve for this type of stuff. CPUs are openly traded in the USA, and they can readily make it to any embassy, and the motherboards are mainly made offshore anyway. Having this type of limitation does stop Compaq, etc from system sales, but has no effect on the volume trade in CPUs. which can be bought at market prices all over the world. Bill