Experts say chipmakers lack the ability to track where many of their lower-end products end up, which could stymie the enforcement of new US sanctions on Russia
Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters : Tweets: @nano_arun , @brad262run , @hrnext , @damspleet , and @catcheronthesly Tweets: @nano_arun : The chip, which costs less than $2, was shipped in 2009 to a distributor in Asia, which sold it to another broker in Asia.. “We couldn't trace it any further”.. What is the expectation here ? Spend more $ tracing a chip than making it ? https://www.reuters.com/... Brad Mumbrue / @brad262run : “There's cutouts. There's middlemen. There's money laundering ... There's a black market distribution network” https://www.reuters.com/... Anurag Shrivastava / @hrnext : “Knowing where the chips go is probably a very good thing. You could for example, on every chip put in essentially a public private key pair, which authenticates it,” and allows it to work, Eric Schmidt, the former Google chairman https://www.reuters.com/... Damien Spleeters / @damspleet : How can we keep Western semiconductors out of Russian weapons? This is a massive challenge, that the war in Ukraine highlights, and @conflictarm will be exploring some solutions directly with the industry https://www.reuters.com/... Ved Nayak / @catcheronthesly : ‘When Silicon Valley chipmaker Marvell learned that one of its chips was found in a Russian surveillance drone recovered in 2016, it set out to investigate how that came to be...’ The chip challenge: Keeping Western semiconductors out of Russian weapons https://www.reuters.com/...