![]() Microsoft: On March 4, Microsoft announced it would immediately stop selling new products and services in Russia. In fact, on March 10, Reuters reported on Meta internal emails, saying that Ukrainian Facebook and Instagram users should be allowed to call for violence against the Russian invaders, given the desperate situation.Īt stake, they said, is “people’s freedom of speech as an expression of self-defense in response to the military invasion of their country.” Calls for violence against Russian civilians would continue to be blocked. Meta: While other companies voluntarily shut down their services, Russian authorities banned Facebook and Instagram for “extremist activities.” Meta Platforms was sued because users had called for violence against the Russian army. ![]() IBM: IBM CEO Arvind Krishna suspended all business in Russia and stressed that the company’s full attention is now focused on IBM employees and their families in Ukraine. That could be done, she said, by no longer allowing those companies to use software and equipment made in the US. In an interview with the New York Times, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the US government could “essentially shut down” Chinese tech companies if they wanted to circumvent or even capitalize on sanctions imposed by Western countries. In an interview with CRN, founder and CEO Michael Dell said of events in Ukraine, “It’s a great tragedy and very disappointing to see a humanitarian disaster.” Dell is among the world’s largest suppliers of servers, storage systems, hyper-converged infrastructure, and PCs.Ĭhinese groups such as semiconductor company Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi have also not yet made a clear statement on the Ukraine war. In addition, the Cisco Talos Intelligence Group, one of the largest commercial threat intelligence teams in the world, manages critical infrastructure security environments, scans the threat landscape, and takes action against malicious actors.ĭell: Dell Technologies had already ended all sales activities in Russia by March 1. The company told CIO.com’s sister publication Computerwoche that more than 500 Cisco Talos employees are currently engaged in combating cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns in the region. Russian semiconductor companies such as Baikal, MCST, Yadro and STC Module design their chips themselves, but have them produced by the Taiwanese contract manufacturer, so there is a possibility that Russia is completely stranded in terms of chip supply at the moment, especially since suppliers such as Samsung, Micron and SK Hynix have also suspended all deliveries.Īfter sanctions were imposed on Russian banks, Apple announced that it would also discontinue its Apple Pay payment service to comply with legal requirements.Ĭisco: Cisco also froze all business activities, including sales and services, in Russia and Belarus “for the foreseeable future.” Every effort is being made to stand by employees, people and institutions, CEO Chuck Robbins said.Ĭisco is providing cyber defense support to Ukraine. From the Russians’ point of view, the fact that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has also joined the ban is likely to weigh even more heavily. How the IT industry reactedĪMD/Intel/Nvidia/TSMC and other chip suppliers: The three big players in the semiconductor scene - Intel, AMD and Nvidia - immediately followed the American export restrictions and stopped their sales in Russia at the beginning of March. The following is an overview - without claiming to be exhaustive - of companies from all over the world that have temporarily suspended all or part of their business in Russia. These include semiconductors and other microelectronics, telecommunications equipment, sensors, aerospace technology, navigation systems, naval equipment and much more. The export of numerous technologies that could be used for the construction of weapons or military infrastructure was banned. To a large extent, this is related to the punitive measures imposed by the US government at the start of the war in Ukraine. ![]() Almost all major IT companies have joined the West’s global economic sanctions against Russia in recent weeks.
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