In the global semiconductor field, the United States has always held the dominant power, including EDA software, chip architecture, lithography machine core device supply, etc., so any country or enterprise wants to develop the semiconductor industry, can not get around the US enterprises, Huawei so, Russia is the same.
After the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, under the order of the United States, the global semiconductor giants have cut off supply, including Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, TSMC, Samsung and almost all mainstream manufacturers, have stopped their business operations in Russia.
However, just as Huawei chose not to compromise, Russia has no intention of worrying, and even develops the local semiconductor industry with national strength.
On the one hand, the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology in Russia previously announced that it has received the first batch of 670 million rubles of funds from the Ministry of Trade and Industry, which will be used to develop a maskless X-ray lithography machine, which is completely different from the route of ASLM, but claims to reach the EUV level.
On the other hand, according to the latest reports of Russian media, Russia has formulated a huge chip replacement plan, and is expected to invest 3.19 trillion rubles before 2030 to achieve chip design and manufacturing of 28nm process, no longer relying on US technology.
Specifically, basic chip manufacturing is expected to invest 460 billion rubles, this year can produce 90nm process chips, by 2030 will master the 28nm process production.
Then there is the chip design part, Russia plans to redesign the chips developed abroad and transfer chip production to Russia and China, and it is expected to achieve 100% import substitution in all fields by 2024. By 2030, Russia will be able to form its own portfolio of technology products, a project costing about 1.14 trillion rubles.
In addition to local chip design and manufacturing, Russia will also focus on the market, with 1.28 trillion rubles in this budget used to increase market demand, with plans to increase the coverage of Russian electronics in households to 30% and the public procurement market to 100% by 2030.
Finally, there is the development of talent in the semiconductor industry, which has an investment budget of 309 billion rubles, and plans to create 400 prototypes of electronic products and carry out more than 2,000 research projects at the same time, when the conversion rate of university students will increase from 5% to 35%.
From the current semiconductor industry background, Russia this year to produce 90nm process chips, 2030 to achieve 28nm process, such a development speed is indeed too slow, to know that TSMC and Samsung have mass production of 4nm process chips.
However, considering that Russia under the sanctions can only rely entirely on itself, this is also a considerable breakthrough, and in the eyes of many netizens, Russia has the strength to make a greater breakthrough, for three reasons.
First of all, long ago, Russia realized the threat of the United States in the field of semiconductors, so it explored a path suitable for its own development, that is, the use of analog circuits to replace digital circuits, so as to solve the problem of chip shortage of scientific and technological development.
The second is to stick to the research of the traditional semiconductor industry, as early as 1984 began to develop synchrotron radiation accelerators, although later pressed the pause button, but in 2002 the project was restarted, and now Russia intends to build a technology center, and it is planned to be put into use in 2023.
Finally, it is not afraid of the card neck, according to the ridicule of netizens, Russia is not afraid of the card neck in the semiconductor field because there is no neck, mainly because Russia does not take the people's livelihood electronic products as the pillar of economic development, so the United States can not drag down Russia through chip sanctions.
In this context, Russia only needs to ensure that the semiconductor industry meets the needs of the military, so this is also russia has not developed in the civilian semiconductor industry for many years, but has launched a batch of world-class new weapons.
This seemingly unscientific status quo is the current situation in Russia, because Russian scientists have extremely solid basic theoretical capabilities and almost anti-heaven system engineering capabilities, and Huawei has signed several Russian "genius teenagers" before, which is a good proof.
Therefore, the author believes that although Russia's semiconductor industry is now backward, considering that it has a solid basic theory and system function capabilities, it is not excluded that the semiconductor industry will be done in such a context in the future. What do you think about this, welcome to comment, like, share.