Intel, AMD Accused of Allowing Chips in Russian Missiles (3)

Microchip manufacturers Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. were accused in a series of lawsuits of failing to keep their technology out of Russian-made weapons used to kill and wound civilians in Ukraine.

Those companies – along with a company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. – demonstrated “willful ignorance” as third parties resold restricted chips to Russia to power drones and missiles in violation of US sanctions, according to one of the five suits, filed Wednesday in state court in Texas.

The lawsuits, filed on the behalf of dozens of Ukrainian civilians by ...