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1. ricardobayes · 1789988959 · focus · HN ↗

   The article features a truck that the chips get loaded onto. This quote from Tanenbaum immediately jumped into mind:

   "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

   1. leoedin · 1789994911 · focus · HN ↗

      I was wondering how much financial value they put in one truck. Presumably the value density of this stuff is incredibly high (although not really to anyone else, so security probably isn't a huge issue). At what point do you split the shipment between multiple trucks to avoid huge losses if there's a crash?

      When I worked on satellites we had some electronics which used a radiation hardened FPGA which cost something like $500k per chip. Carrying that around was nerve wracking.

      1. quadragenarian · 1790007914 · focus · HN ↗

         Ha - I still remember when I worked on the IBEX-Lo Sensor, we had to hand carry it to Switzerland. One lucky member of our team got to fly first class with it because it wouldn't fit in a coach seat!

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