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Soon we will know if these chips have been compromised by the NSA already. Hope the Russians know how to play this game of roulette.
Anyone found violating sanctions is cut off from future supplies.

Okay, it's the least we could do, but can we do more? Seems to me like this would just be a never-ending game of whack-a-mole, and stupid expensive to administer too. >

Welcome to the world of export controls. >

Or the world of government in general, people will always find a way around a law no matter how well that law is enforced.
It's harder to do in some cases, but where there's a will there's a way. >

Welcome to the world of private choice. Companies, if not compelled otherwise, will have their interests and will try their best to serve such interests, to serve Russian market needs, especially military market needs.
It's like the US recently being shocked at American companies in large part assisting the skyrocketing Chinese tech industries through initial development stages of chip-making, and then the US govt. forgetting all notions of freedom in trade and banning this international affair, which forced private American companies previously doing big business with China, like NVIDIA, to take significant business losses. It will be the people within the most ardent opposition countries to Russia, that will be the most interested in assisting it. They will find a way to assist it one way or another. >

Because China is fucked, yeah? >

It remains to be seen, as they are now incentivised to develop their own, or take Taiwanese chips, now that they've been cut off from freedom chips. It will mainly come down to how well the enforcement regime upholds the barrier that the US has asked to be upheld, and how successful China is in doing chips from scratch. >


The largest was Sinno Electronics, which is named on U.S. sanctions lists, but not by the European Union. >

Sanction the leadership of the chinese reseller companies, blacklist them so they cant work for any companies that do businesses with the west ever again. 
There must be personal consequences. >

What's to stop then just replacing the leadership of those companies and just doing it again?
Shouldn't China itself be sanctioned for reselling computer chips to russia?
I'd think it should be the responsibility of each nation to make sure their citizens don't break international rules/sanctions, but hey, i'm no expert. >

There isn't.  It's just a feature of capitalism. You can spend money to bypass a lot of inconveniences. >

Seems to me like people don't understand sanctions. Sanctions don't make it impossible for a country to obtain banned goods, they make it more expensive and time consuming.
There will always be a way around sanctions in a complex, global economy,  but that doesn't mean they're not working. >

Capitalism at its worst:   We don't sell to Russia, we sell to China and they "give" them to Russia.   headshake >

I don’t think the West is supposed to sell chips to China either tbh. Wasn’t there sanctions against their chip sector? >


Wasn’t there sanctions against their chip sector?

There are sanctions covering some types of semiconductor manufacturing equipment (i.e. machines that make ICs). We aren't preventing trade of finished semiconductor products; that would be a massive escalation. >


There are sanctions covering some types of semiconductor manufacturing equipment (i.e. machines that make ICs).

The US is preventing sale to China for some advanced semiconductor chips too, not just manufacturing equipment, software and plans. Nvidia even had to launch nerfed products in their AI hardware division to be able to sell them to China. Your statement is not accurate. >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 70%. (I'm a bot)


Several million microchips produced by Dutch manufacturers, including NXP and Nexperia, wound up in Russia last year in shipments that were handled by resellers after sanctions were in place as a consequence of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The broadcaster's researchers, including those working for magazine program Nieuwsuur, identified a small group of Chinese companies that would continuously supply computer chips to Russia after receiving them from the Dutch manufacturers.
A spokesperson for Nexperia, headquartered in Nijmegen, told NOS that the resale of computer chips to third parties "Cannot always be controlled or prevented by us." The company said they use software to monitor the distribution chain involving their chips.


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ING, Philips also are still operating in Russia!