U.S. government's chief law enforcement officer displays a set of confiscated American-made radiation-hardened microchips, which were seized from a Chinese national who tried to smuggle them to China. Photo: Reuters
U.S. government's chief law enforcement officer displays a set of confiscated American-made radiation-hardened microchips, which were seized from a Chinese national who tried to smuggle them to China. Photo: Reuters
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Chinese national jailed in US for bid to smuggle microchips to China

Radiation-hardened US microchips may have been meant for the Chinese space programme

Reuters
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Updated: 11:56pm, 19 Dec, 2013

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U.S. government's chief law enforcement officer displays a set of confiscated American-made radiation-hardened microchips, which were seized from a Chinese national who tried to smuggle them to China. Photo: Reuters
U.S. government's chief law enforcement officer displays a set of confiscated American-made radiation-hardened microchips, which were seized from a Chinese national who tried to smuggle them to China. Photo: Reuters
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