Nvidia to close its office in Russia

By the end of October 2022, Nvidia will close its office in Russia due to “an inability to ensure the employees’ effective work.” Forbes reports.

The company is transporting by charter flights employees who agreed to relocate to other countries. For those who decide against relocating, the tech giant will terminate the contract by mutual agreement with severance pay.

As of February, the chipmaker’s Russian office employed about 300 people; today 240 remain—primarily engineers.

A Nvidia spokesperson did not comment on the information about relocating employees by charter planes, but confirmed that the company announced the closure of the Russian office on September 30.

In March, the tech giant halted product sales in the country.

In the summer, Nvidia stopped renewing licenses for cloud gaming software for Russian companies. At that time, sources in Kommersant said that this could complicate the work of supercomputers at Yandex, Sberbank and MTS, which use A100 and DGX-2 accelerators.

Earlier in September, Nvidia and AMD received from the U.S. Department of Commerce a directive prohibiting the export of AI chips to China and Russia.

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