Nvidia’s hardware has actually been a particular target. In 2025, authorities examined robberies of Nvidia hardware, valued at more than $7.5 million, around Fremont and Union City, California. As reported by The Mercury News, authorities think the thefts were performed by a group that got lorries for the break-in in Southern California before taking a trip north to the Bay Area.

Teacher Olaf Groth of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business informed ABC News that “if a chip costs about $550,000, then they choose about $1 million or more abroad.” Those margins, he stated, might be incentivizing wrongdoers: “Because freights are growing. The break-ins are getting more intricate which will point towards a professionalization of the groups that are pirating these.”

Not every potential break-in team gets it right. A theft in September, reported by Wired, saw 2 trailers marked with Nvidia and PlusAI logo designs taken from beyond a warehouse center in California. The trailers were recuperated by cops close by, most likely after the bad guys cut the locks to expose they were each filled with 20,000 pounds of sand. PlusAI is a business dealing with self-governing trucking options with Nvidia, and the sand remained in the trailers to mimic freight loads.