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AI · heise.de · Friday, 21 August 2026

Nvidia chip straight off the shelf, found inside Russia's newest cruise missile

Ukraine's HUR pulled an Nvidia Jetson Orin NX module from a downed Russian S-71M cruise missile, the most powerful Western AI chip recovered in the war to date. Manufactured in March 2025, it arrived long after Nvidia quit Russia. Since the Jetson is sold at retail as a consumer-grade board, it sat on no export-control list, unlike training-class GPUs. That is how AI compute keeps reaching Russian weapons.

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