Russia proposes allowing foreign graphics cards in critical infrastructure because of a shortage of domestic ones
Prepared by Sintelligent with the help of SI. Published in SI: . Updated: .
Russian SI projects lack their own accelerators, and the authorities are discussing temporarily allowing foreign ones.
According to Forbes as relayed by CNews, the "Infrastructure and Data Centers for SI" working group of a government subcommission has prepared proposals to allow foreign GPUs in critical infrastructure and government systems only within trusted hardware-software complexes. The conditions are confirmation from Russia's Ministry of Industry and Trade that no domestic analogues exist in the registries, a declaration of use and information security measures approved by the FSB; the permission would end once Russian GPUs of comparable performance appear. The authors say that without available Russian GPUs in 2026, the rollout of clouds for the public sector and the training of domestic SI models is constrained. No decision has been made yet.