News Russia buys chips from Intel, AMD, and others to fuel war efforts — the country bought $1.7 billion in 2023

[Admin]

Bloomberg report shows that Russia imported chips from AMD, Intel, Infineon, despite sanctions.

Russia buys chips from Intel, AMD, and others to fuel war efforts — the country bought $1.7 billion in 2023 : Read more

 

[Ice2burn]

Welcome to the capitalism and free market, even 4070 ti super already available in Russia, though, not even close to msrp.

Also, it's prohibited to use US chips and integrated circuits in the Russian military industry in order to avoid data leaks and possible vulnerability exploits.
Chip size doesn't matter in the big weapons, so it's posible to use even 350nm process, which is old, but Russia can manufacture by itself.

 

[Co BIY]

Is this number of chips imported less/more /or the same as pre-war/pre-sanctions levels ?

Even if the dollar amount is the same, if the average price is much more it may be creating a queeze.

Unfortunately in a large global economy it is very hard to prevent "misuse" of small amounts of dual-use technologies by determined nation-state actors.