- Ukrainian civilians are suing Intel, AMD and TI, alleging their chips ended up in Russian weapons.
- The lawsuit alleges “willful ignorance,” citing third-party resellers and attacks that killed civilians.
- The companies deny wrongdoing and say they stopped sales in Russia and complied with all export sanctions.
Three giants of the American computer hardware industry: Intel, AMD and Texas Instruments are being sued by “dozens” of Ukrainian civilians. The plaintiffs argue that these companies chose to turn a blind eye while Russia used their hardware to make bombs that later killed Ukrainian citizens.
According to Bloomberg, the plaintiffs are represented by an American law firm, Baker Hostetler, and say the three firms demonstrated “willful ignorance” as Russia was able to purchase the hardware from third parties to whom the three firms sold their products.
Among the third parties is Mouser Electronics, which allegedly helped Russian representatives obtain the hardware. Its vice president of marketing, Kevin Hess, told Bloomberg that the company did not want to discuss the matter in the media, but in the courtroom.
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Bloomberg says, citing documents that are not yet public, that the plaintiffs detailed five attacks between 2023 and 2025 that killed “dozens” of people, and at least one of those incidents used Iranian-made drones, which also contained parts from Intel and AMD.
“These companies know that their chip technology is coming to Russia,” Watts, a veteran US mass tort lawyer, said at a news conference in Washington on Wednesday morning.
Intel, on the other hand, told the publication that it does not do business in Russia, suspended all shipments to the country (and Belarus) when the war began, and is operating “in strict compliance with export laws, sanctions, and regulations in the U.S. and in all markets in which we operate, and we hold our suppliers, customers, and distributors accountable to these same standards.”
Texas Instruments and AMD have not yet officially commented on the news, but both have said in the past that they are in full compliance with the sanctions requirements and that they stopped doing business in Russia with the start of the war.
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