Nvidia doesn’t just make GPUs. According to the Gamers Nexus video that dropped yesterday, there is evidence of Russian drones being equipped with Nvidia Jetson boards, which are a complete computer on a mini board in various guises, including with inbuilt GPU/NPU chips for AI tasks. But these also have everything else a computer needs to be a computer. The drones presumably use these for target identification, navigation, or both.
Given that Russia is currently at least on paper heavily sanctioned by the US, it is illegal for a US company (Nvidia) to sell products to them.
Nvidia doesn’t just make GPUs. According to the Gamers Nexus video that dropped yesterday, there is evidence of Russian drones being equipped with Nvidia Jetson boards, which are a complete computer on a mini board in various guises, including with inbuilt GPU/NPU chips for AI tasks. But these also have everything else a computer needs to be a computer. The drones presumably use these for target identification, navigation, or both.
Given that Russia is currently at least on paper heavily sanctioned by the US, it is illegal for a US company (Nvidia) to sell products to them.