Oakland, California ¨C When Silicon Valley chipmaker Marvell learned that one of its chips was found in a Russian surveillance drone recovered in 2016, it set out to investigate how that came to be.
The chip, which costs less than $2, was shipped in 2009 to a distributor in Asia, which sold it to another broker in Asia, which later went out of business.
¡°We couldn¡¯t trace it any further,¡± Marvell Technology Group Chief Operations Officer Chris Koopmans said in a recent interview.
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