NVIDIA closes its operations and offices in Russia

in a report (via RT)NVIDIA is reported to have shut down all GPU operations within Russia due to the ongoing war with Ukraine.

According to the report, NVIDIA will shut down all official business that includes mainly GPUs along with its Russian office by the end of this year. The company had passed on the information to more than 200 employees who were still at NVIDIA’s Russian office in Moscow, Russia.

While NVIDIA had already banned sales of its GPUs to Russia and halted exports to the country after receiving instructions from the US government, the GPU maker still had several employees working out of the Russian head office.

The decision to close the office, which employed some 300 people in Russia before the conflict between Moscow and kyiv broke out in late February, was made due to the “inability to ensure effective work of its employees”.

While the ranks have since thinned, the company still employs about 240 people in Russia, the Nvidia representative told the magazine, adding that the decision was announced to employees on September 30.

Nvidia is now “actively weeding out on charter planes those who agree to relocate to offices in other countries,” according to the source. The relocation scheme, however, has not been officially confirmed.

There were about 300 people working in NVIDIA’s Russian office before the war broke out, but since then, several employees had left the company due to the inability to ensure effective work of its employees.

Despite the war, there were still 240 employees working on the site, but now they have been told that the office will close its doors once and for all. All employees will have the opportunity to travel to offices in other countries via charter aircraft; however, it is not yet confirmed.