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I gotta question or three. The latest Chinese illegal tech transfer story has the PRC acquiring eighty MG80486 DX2-5 processors for $540,000. MG seems to mean "military grade." See http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/sns-ap-scholar-guilty-plea,0,623713.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines That's $6750 per chip which, in its civilian version, went for a couple of hundred bucks. Is that a standard markup for such items? What does the MG provide that the vanilla version doesn't? And what would the PRC need with eighty such things that it couldn't use the commodity version for?
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