Russia has been circumventing sanctions by acquiring high-end processors through Dell servers imported from India. A report reveals that Shreya Life Sciences, an Indian pharmaceutical company, exported 1,111 units of Dell's PowerEdge XE9680 servers to Russia between April and August 2024.
These servers, valued at approximately $300 million, feature 4th-gen Xeon Scalable CPUs and Nvidia H100 or AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators optimized for AI operations. Data for 998 of the units confirms they were equipped with H100 chips.
The servers were legally exported under India's trade regulations to Russian companies Main Chain Ltd. and I.S. LLC. The shipments originated in Malaysia, with 1,407 units sent from Malaysia to India during the same period.
India does not adhere to US and EU sanctions against Russia, making it the second-largest supplier of restricted technology to the nation after China. Shreya Life Sciences has a history of exporting both medical and non-medical products to Russia since 2022, including computer hardware.