The Russian company Baikal Electronics intends to invest about 23 billion rubles to expand the range of processors developed by it and increase the volume of production to 600 thousand units per year by 2025, technews.bg reports.
The new product strategy was approved by the company’s board of directors in June, Cnews reported. The investments will be made by attracting state subsidies, debt financing and own funds.
Baikal Electronics plans to expand its product line with next-generation Baikal processors for laptops, tablets, storage systems and supercomputers, as well as accelerators using artificial intelligence technologies.
According to industry experts, the public sector will provide the greatest demand for the new generation of Baikal processors, but they are skeptical about the company’s forecasts for achieving the planned production volumes due to the overloaded capacity of its partner – Taiwanese TSMC.
This year, Baikal Electronics plans to release 130,000 processors. Earlier it was reported that by the end of the first quarter the company will order from TSMC three batches of Baikal-M ARM processors with a total volume of at least 213 thousand units.
Baikal chips are manufactured by TSMC using a 28-nanometer process. But ambitious plans to produce 600,000 next-generation processors by 2025 suggest using 6-12 nm technology.
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