- Ukrainian civilians are suing Intel, AMD and TI, claiming their chips ended up in Russian weapons
- Lawsuit alleges “willful ignorance” citing third-party negotiators and attacks that killed civilians
- Companies deny wrongdoing and say they halted Russia sales and comply with all export sanctions
Three giants of the US computer hardware industry – Intel, AMD and Texas Instruments – are being sued by “dozens” of Ukrainian civilians. The plaintiffs allege that these companies decided to look the other way while Russia used their hardware to build bombs that later killed Ukrainian citizens.
According to Bloomberg, the plaintiffs are represented by a US law firm, Baker Hostetler, and say that the three companies displayed “willful ignorance” when Russia was able to buy the hardware from third parties to which the three companies sold their products.
Among the third parties is Mouser Electronics, which allegedly helped Russian proxies obtain the hardware. Its VP of Marketing, Kevin Hess, told Bloomberg that the company did not want to discuss the case over the media, but rather – in the courtroom.
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Bloomberg says, citing records 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 that also contained Intel and AMD parts.
“These companies know their chip technology is going into 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 to Belarus) when the war started, and operates “in strict compliance with the export laws, sanctions and regulations of the United States and all markets in which we operate, and we hold our suppliers, customers and distributors accountable to these same standards.”
Texas Instruments and AMD have yet to officially comment on the news, but both have previously said they fully comply with sanctions requirements and that they stopped doing business in Russia with the start of the war.
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