Friday, March 4th 2022
AMD and Intel Stop Processor Shipments to Russia and Belarus
Unless you have been living under a rock, chances are you are following the news about the Russia-Ukraine war disputes. Not to get too political, we are here to report about your favorite rivals—AMD and Intel—officially stopping the delivery of processors to Russia and Belarus. Firstly, an AMD representative told PCWorld that "Based on sanctions placed on Russia by the United States and other nations, at this time AMD is suspending its sales and distribution of our products into Russia and Belarus. It is all AMD products and products we power (PCs, etc) in Russia and Belarus." Additionally, Intel posted an official quote, which you can find below.
Sources:
PCWorld (AMD Quote), Intel, via VideoCardz
IntelIntel condemns the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and we have suspended all shipments to customers in both Russia and Belarus. Our thoughts are with everyone who has been impacted by this war, including the people of Ukraine and the surrounding countries and all those around the world with family, friends and loved ones in the region.
"We are working to support all of our employees through this difficult situation, especially those with close ties to this region. We have launched an employee donation and matching campaign through the Intel Foundation that has already raised over $1.2 million for relief efforts, and we are proud of the work our teams in surrounding areas including Poland, Germany and Romania are doing to aid refugees. We will continue to stand with the people of Ukraine and the global community in calling for an immediate end to this war and a swift return to peace.
95 Comments on AMD and Intel Stop Processor Shipments to Russia and Belarus
Russia sees Ukraine as its rightful territory. Ukraine sees itself as its own country.
China sees Taiwan as its rightful territory. Taiwan sees itself as its own country.
As for saying "they can buy through third parties": Yes, they can. Only in limited quantities though - you need money to buy things, even more so if your only option is to buy through predatory resellers, something that should be painfully obvious to anyone wanting to buy a GPU after Q2 2020. Russian economy quickly goes from from "slowly rotting gutter" to the "bottom of an outhouse" level, which is exacerbated by the fact that most of their companies are now worthless and are being bought en masse by the Chinese and anyone with the ability to get their assets through special purpose entities. If the western sanctions hold, soon only China will be a reseller available to ruskies, and China is nothing if not opportunistic, borderline predatory, as it is.
I don't foresee many gamers coming from Russia in the next years. Which is great, I really dislike those people in Eve Online.
I'm sure Russia made accommodations before doing this and knows full well the USA atm is programed on lame mode.
I'm perplexed. When the US had its teeth kicked in, post 9/11, we did exactly this with Afghanistan. We defined what we saw as bad people, who reasonably saw terrorism as a resolution to their ideological differences. Our response was to go kick down the doors, and the rest of the world claimed that we were acting as a global police force that nobody wanted or needed.
The above proposal is to have the US do the exact same thing, but instead of kicking somebody who was tangentially linked to the event you want us to start kicking the oligarchs. Individuals who learned from Japan in WWII, and have rightly left the sleeping dog lie with regards to the US. Our motivation for doing so is to liberate Russia, spread democracy, and doing all of this only because we want more democracy?
I'm trying to frame this so the ask is rational. So far, the theoretical spread of democracy is literally the only upside of this transaction.
Alternatively, we can push our internal benefactors to not provide resources to Russia. This takes almost no political capitol, and doesn't require any manpower. The result, in an interconnected world, is the collapse of infrastructure and markets. Market drive everything, because there is functionally no longer a self-sufficient economy on this planet. The only point of failure here would be if a third party restored the lost economic activity, which would functionally mean that there were two pariahs if those original actions bringing down a sanction were universally viewed as abhorrent.
Of course, abhorrent is rather plastic. War crimes, invasions, and genocide generally are the only thing that would be considered to be universally abhorrent...and wouldn't you look at that. Russian invasions of land seem to fit the bill.
I suppose that the US finally learned that there are more subtle ways of doing things...because military conflict is no longer possible between large powers. It's not even really a viable tactic against people whose most advanced hardware is an AK-47. What you're asking for is decisive action against people who you think are evil...to right a perceived wrong...and the cost of that moral policing should fall on the US...because? I'm just laughing, because a decade ago this suggestion would have been jingoistic talk from the extreme bits of the US. Oh, how the pendulum swings.
Back on point though, this is about Intel and AMD. Best case scenario their stuff is used in military hardware...which the sanctions will severely cripple the production of. Oligarchs living high off of money siphoned from a corrupt political system is kind of beyond the pale here. I don't think forcing them to pay 200% MSRP for a CPU can ever really address that.
Think you're overrating sanctions effects and underestimating underground railroads lol
Yeah say one thing and do another :laugh: