The US and EU's own technology is being used by Russia to fight back. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Imports between October and January were 50 per cent or more of median pre-war levels each month, according to tracking by Silverado Policy Accelerator, a think tank.
The Semiconductor Industry Association, which represents major chip companies, said that it was engaging with the US government and other parties to combat the illicit trade in semiconductors, but that controlling their flow is extremely difficult. A report issued Tuesday by Conflict Armament Research , an independent group that examines Russian weaponry recovered from the battlefield, revealed the first known example of Russia making weapons with chips manufactured after the invasion began.
“It is impossible to isolate Russia from the entire global electronic component base,” Mr Alan Lushnikov, the group’s president, said in a Russian language interview last year, according to a translation in a report from the Centre for Strategic and International Relations, a think tank. “It’s a fantasy to think otherwise.”
In another document, the Bureau of Industry and Security identified eight categories of chips and components deemed critical to Russian weapons development, including one called a field programmable gate array, which had been found in one model of Russian cruise missile, the KH-101.
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