Yale team names 3 Taiwan PC brands still operating in Russia

Three Taiwan companies stand accused of still doing business with Russia, despite pressure to cut ties. They’ve landed on a list compiled by a Yale University professor and his team. According to these researchers, Taiwanese PC maker Asus has not actually suspended operations, even though it promised that shipments to Russia were, quote, “at an effective standstill.” Two other Taiwanese PC makers also made the list.

Asus has announced a new AI cloud technology project with the National Health Research Institutes and Nvidia. They will build Taiwan’s first supercomputer for medical use, which can greatly reduce data processing times.

Liang Kung-yee
NHRI president
If you were to analyze the data, it would take four to five months. It’s hard to imagine that with this equipment, we would be able to cut that to just 22 minutes. That’s a huge difference.

At the project’s press announcement, Asus CEO Jonney Shih was asked to confirm that his company had stopped shipments to Russia.

Shih said the company had already made a public announcement about the shipments. On March 14, the company released a statement saying that its shipments to Russia were at “an effective standstill” and the firm would donate NT$30 million to help relief operations in Ukraine. But according to a team at Yale University, Asus had not in fact suspended its Russia operations.

On the list of companies still operating in Russia, the Yale team also called out Taiwan’s Micro-Star International and Acer. Both companies have responded to the charge, saying that their operations abide by international trade rules.

[GlobalPenguin]

Hypocritical companies. The spokesperson is obviously trying to evade the questioning by reporters.

[xavdeman]

(TL;DW, it's: ASUS, MSI and Acer)

[dlewis]

But, buying oil, gas, wheat + fertilizer from Russia is just fine? Not that Taiwan is, but there's hardly a 100% stop of trade.