Gli ucraini fanno causa alle aziende statunitensi di chip per aver alimentato droni e missili russi – Le cause legali potrebbero costringere Intel, AMD e Texas Instruments a fare di più per controllare le catene di fornitura di chip
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/ukrainians-sue-us-chip-firms-for-powering-russian-drones-missiles/
di MeltSolaris
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The problem is going to be that these companies don’t have any legal obligation to do what they’re asking at all. As long as they’re not violating sanctions and selling products legally to parties that are then going on to violate sanctions, there is absolutely zero liability on the chip maker’s part.
If you sell a gun to someone who can legally purchase a gun, and they give the gun to a criminal, you can’t win a lawsuit against the original seller. It might suck that the person liable doesn’t have the assets to recieve recompense in a lawsuit, but that’s doesn’t make the original seller liable.
I also find it strange that these aren’t federal lawsuits. A state court doesn’t have concurrent jurisdiction over things like federal export control laws like ITAR and things like that. Seems like a waste of money when the court can just throw everything out and say that’s not our problem and this is the wrong venue.
This lawsuit feels overdue. When civilian deaths are linked to technology supply chains, companies like Intel, AMD, and Texas Instruments can’t hide behind “neutral tools.” Accountability matters when chips become weapons.
People keep pretending supply chains are abstract, but Ukrainians are literally dying from systems powered by Western tech. Legal pressure may finally force stricter export controls instead of vague promises and reactive PR statements.
Putin just needs to make one phone call to make that lawsuit go away, I am afraid.
This lawsuit is utterly stupid and performative. It’s going absolutely nowhere legally because proving a chain of causation through five layers of grey-market distributors is impossible. If these Ukrainian “civilians” actually wanted to go after someone with dirty hands, **they should have sued the European defense giants that kept pumping weapons into Russia for** ***years*** **after the 2014 embargo.** Companies in France and Germany used “grandfather clause” loopholes to sell hundreds of millions in thermal sights and avionics that are actually on Russian tanks right now. But sure, let’s sue Mouser Electronics in Texas for selling generic chips.
Americans profiting from both sides of the war? Simply unheard of.
There is no justice in America oblast
Keep me posted on how things are going.
Lol! Yeah, sure..
A team leader in those companies is more important to the US than Zelensky and all of the Rada together
That is the most Karen thing I have read today. Do you think these companies know where their chips are going when someone buys them? If I buy an Intel chip and create a drone with it, is it intel’s fault? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t support Russia, and I hope the war ends asap but that lawsuit is just stupid.
actually enforcing sanctions has the potential to change the war massively. would be great to see this progress successfully
if Nvidia chips can be prevented from ending up in China, why are these any different?
Sadly for Ukraine, I’m fairly sure private businesses like these can do business with whomever they may want. Usually that is “anyone willing to play the price we’re asking for”. I don’t think the US government could prevent them from doing business with Russia (if they even wanted to prevent it, that is), could they?
What are they supposed to do?
The US company made chips in Russian drones is not something I thought of before, interesting. Thanks for sharing.