Russia has developed chip-making expertise that’s 30 years behind the West – Information

“We constructed the primary dwelling lithographic scanner. It’s now being examined as a part of the expertise line in Zelenograd,” Russian Deputy Minister of Trade and Commerce Vasiliy Shpak instructed the group on the finish of Could. TASS.

For Russia, that is definitely an enormous technological milestone that may assist in the manufacturing of semiconductors, which aren’t in enough provide within the nation. By world requirements, nevertheless, it’s a very old school expertise that was invented 30 years in the past.

The American firm Intel made Pentium MMX processors, Pentium Professional and the unique Pentium II processors made with 350 nm expertise already in 1995 and 1997. Furthermore, it was not alone. One other American producer, AMD, used this chip as early as 1997 for its K6 processor, the server stated Tom’s {Hardware}.

In the present day’s chip manufacturing machines from the European firm ASML are designed to have the ability to produce 3 nm semiconductors. Along with smaller dimension, they’re primarily way more advanced than 350 nm chips. For instance, the variety of transistors essential to whole computing energy is within the billions, not thousands and thousands. The chips are additionally extra vitality environment friendly.

However, purposes are discovered for bigger semiconductors, which Russia will now be capable to produce. “350-nanometer chips, though they’re thought of massive chips, are nonetheless utilized in many industries, together with automotive, vitality and telecommunications,” stated TASS.

Server Tom’s {Hardware} additionally identified that these chips will also be used for army tools, particularly the place fashionable expertise and excessive efficiency usually are not required. As a result of their robustness, the chips are very appropriate for a number of older army methods or help methods akin to communication tools, previous radar methods or logistics tools.

Final yr, the Russian authorities introduced long-term targets for the semiconductor sector. By the top of this yr, he desires to create the expertise for the manufacturing of 90nm chips, and by 2030 he desires to supply 14nm chips.