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Alarming amount of Texas Instrument chips found in Russian-based weapons in Ukraine — Russian military using third parties to purchase U.S-made chips | The U.S., and Texas Instruments, are struggling to crack down on slippery Russian-bound shipments.
The U.S., and Texas Instruments, are struggling to crack down on slippery Russian-bound shipments.
Despite strict sanctions imposed by the United States preventing semiconductor shipments to Russia, Russian weapons discovered on Ukrainian battlefields purportedly have an alarming amount of U.S.-manufactured chips inside. These chips are purportedly used to assist in the production of "...drones, glide bombs, precision communication systems and the Iskander missiles that Moscow uses to hammer Ukraine’s cities." Bloomberg reports that one case it reviewed revealed that a major Russian distributor handled orders for hundreds of thousands of Texas Instruments products amounting to roughly $6 million worth of value from January 2024 to August 2024.
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