News Downed Russian drone used at least 30 chips from Western companies — silicon from Xilinx, TI, Marvell, Micron, and others found in the wreckage

[Admin]

Ukrainian military intelligence discovered U.S. and other Western tech inside the wreckage of a downed Russian prototype drone.

Downed Russian drone used at least 30 chips from Western companies — silicon from Xilinx, TI, Marvell, Micron, and others found in the wreckage : Read more

 

[scottslayer]

Last time it was 18, now its 30.
Is this situation like China and GPUs where its still estimated to be getting 1.8 million per month even with the sanctions?

 

[Geef]

Probably only a couple actual secret military use chips and the rest were on a single big M.2 drive. Maybe two since they probably want a RAID mirror backup. Some of those high capacity M.2 drives have like 6-8 chips per side.

 

[USAFRet]

Probably only a couple actual secret military use chips and the rest were on a single big M.2 drive. Maybe two since they probably want a RAID mirror backup. Some of those high capacity M.2 drives have like 6-8 chips per side.

RAID? Mirror?
No, these things don't work like that.

 

[jlake3]

I'm guessing these aren't the kind of chips that are serialized? Would be interesting to see what the flow of these is and where the leakiest distribution channels are, although it sounds like we already have a pretty good idea.

Also kinda surprised that there's seemingly zero 'Know your customer' requirements for items with sanction controls on them. Wild that a company from Hong Kong that was recently created and only exists on paper doesn't need to prove it has a legitimate, compliant end use.

 

[Late_Apex]

Most likely going through India as Modi is friendly with Putin and supporting his special operation. Its a shame no one calls this out because too many greedy companies rely on India for cheap tech labor and everyone looks the other way…

 

[ingtar33]

you want to stop this? start arresting the CEOs of those companies for treason. this will stop immediately. and suddenly those companies will lock down sales and verified clients intently.

 

[das_stig]

Lets be honest here, companies see profits and don't care who they sell too until caught red handed but they plead ignorance and 3rd party bad actors and say prove we did it. They know selling to Honk Kong and other countries will lead to them being redirected to Russia and other undesirable countries.

 

[passivecool]

No, guys, it is actually fine. The drone was not built in russia, but in north korea!

 

[coder0xff]

you want to stop this? start arresting the CEOs of those companies for treason. this will stop immediately. and suddenly those companies will lock down sales and verified clients intently.

Don't speak of things you know nothing about.

 

[79Bry]

The finest Spartan 3 devices were used I'm sure. 😉

 

[DS426]

Russia also had the advantage of knowing when they would invade, so is it possible that they placed large orders before going in to Ukraine to stockpile these parts? Supply chains like this don't move at the speed like customers placing orders on Amazon; I'm thinking it will still take more time for the sanctions to have an observable impact on some of these machines and devices.

Trade sanctions aren't (can't be) 100% bulletproof, but the nature of making the trade much more difficult is where the effect and long-term outcome lie.

 

[newtechldtech]

This is great news , if war against Russia starts , they will not be able to produce more drones . Russia cant stand a long war .. just let their stock deplete . an shoot down what they made .

On the other hand , like in WW2 , USA produced more then 200,000 combat aircrafts. without robotic factories ! Imagine what can be done today.