Dozens of Ukrainian civilians have filed a series of lawsuits against chip manufacturers Intel, AMD, and Texas Instruments for failing to keep their chips from ending up in Russian weapons that killed and wounded civilians in Ukraine.
According to the plaintiffs, who are being represented by the American law firm Baker Hostetler, these companies have demonstrated “willful ignorance” in preventing their chips from being shipped to Russia to power drones and missiles.
Russia was able to purchase chips via third parties, to whom Intel, AMD, and Texas Instruments sold their chips.
One of these third parties is Mouser Electronics, a Mansfield, Texas-based Company. It’s being accused of facilitating the transfer of chips made by Intel, Texas Instruments, and others to shell companies controlled by Russian proxies.
Kevin Hess, the company’s Vice President of Marketing, told Bloomberg that “we deeply respect the legal process and will respond to this matter in court, versus the media.”
Iran is also said to be manufacturing missiles with technology from Intel, AMD, and Texas Instruments and selling them to Russia.
According to the filings, which aren’t public as of writing but have been studied by Bloomberg, five attacks took place between 2023 and 2025 that killed dozens of people. Allegedly, at least one attack involved Iranian-made drones containing components associated with Intel and AMD.
An Intel spokesperson told Bloomberg that the company “does not conduct business in Russia and promptly suspended all shipments to customers in both Russia and Belarus following the outbreak of war,” adding that it acts “in strict accordance with export laws, sanctions and regulations in the US and every market in which we operate, and we hold our suppliers, customers, and distributors accountable to these same standards.”
AMD and Texas Instruments didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Bloomberg previously reported on the presence of American chips in Russian weapons, which are supposedly being used to guide missiles and target them.
Last month, Dutch news outlet RTL Nieuws discovered that chips from NXP and Nexperia are still being used in Russian weapons, despite an export ban from the Netherlands. A spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs called this “highly undesirable.”
To strengthen the enforcement of the sanctions, the Dutch government promised to allocate an additional €36.5 million.
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