Chips From Texas Instruments and Other US Makers Flow Into Russia Despite Ban
- Components stream into country through Hong Kong dealers
- Companies say they had no knowledge of Russian transactions
A Texas Instruments Inc. integrated circuit microchip.
Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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US semiconductors have continued to flow to Russian military-linked companies this year in spite of export restrictions aimed at cutting them off — with Texas Instruments Inc. and Analog Devices Inc. emerging as the biggest makers of those chips.
Shipments of the semiconductors surged in the first half of the year, many of them traveling through Hong Kong on their way to the sanctioned country, according to Russian customs data provided by the Washington-based investigative nonprofit C4ADS. That’s undermined efforts to keep technology away from Vladimir Putin’s military following the invasion of Ukraine.