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Chip Theft

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on the country's biggest bust of computer chip thieves. More than 500 officers converged on hideouts and arrested 43 people from a high-tech ring that has been victimizing computer-chip businesses in Silicon Valley. The stolen microchips, worth up to $550 each, have been feeding an international gray market in stolen computer parts.

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