Customs data: Russia imported $570M worth of US chips from Hong Kong and mainland China from February 24, 2022 to December 31, 2022, despite US sanctions
Among the high-value items reported in the export data were microprocessors from Intel and AMD, as well as FPGAs from Xilinx, a subsidiary of AMD. FPGAs are a type of rewritable and programmable integrated circuit, largely used in missiles.
@pstAsiatech @NikkeiAsia This is more evidence of #sanctionsfail ... unilaterally imposed sanctions stand a chance of working in a more-or-less unipolar environment. That doesn't exist.
Russia's Hong Kong/Shenzhen route to US semiconductors. “There are many formless shell companies and small trading companies in HK that serve as receptacles for secondary sales. If you spot one illegal trade, they can just change their name”. https://asia.nikkei.com/...