NVIDIA Responds After AI Chip Found Inside Russian Stealth Missile
Ukrainian intelligence has uncovered an NVIDIA Jetson Orin module inside one of Russia's newest air-launched cruise missile, raising fresh alarms over global supply chain leakage and the militarization of commercial edge AI.
Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) revealed, via its portal, that a Jetson Orin module was recovered from the debris of a Russian S-71M "Monochrome" stealth cruise missile. Specific chip markings, TE980M-A1, correspond to NVIDIA's Jetson Orin NX 16 GB system-on-module platform built around the Tegra T234. Manufactured with eight Arm Cortex-A78AE cores, an Ampere GPU, and 32 Tensor Cores delivering up to 157 TOPS of AI performance, the compact hardware is primarily intended for commercial robotics, autonomous machinery, and computer vision projects.
Unlike older-gen precision weapons that rely on fixed satellite coordinates, the S-71M Monochrome is designed as a hybrid between a long-range cruise missile and a loitering munition. Launched from SU-57 stealth fighters or S-70...
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