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The Russians are coming
ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURER Sitronics, which makes telecommunications, information technology and microelectronics gear in Russia and the CIS, is to open a 90 nanometre microchip plant.
The project will be built at the Sitronics' "NIIME and Micron" subsidiary site in Voronezh, Russia and will fab chips on licence from ST Microelectronics.
The chips will be used in industrial electronics, vehicles, digital televisions and Russian GPS navigation systems.
It is expected that the plant will turn out chips with enhanced functions useful for biometric passports and other personal documents, banking cards, SIM-cards and RFID-tags, including chips designed for logistics and retail.
Sergey Aslanian, president of Sitronics, said that the outfit's new 90nm microchip production operation will enable the Russian microelectronics industry to advance to a new level.
Later the project might involve the creation of a design centre for proprietary microchips. µ
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I think I remember seeing news that a russian company had bought used AMD equipment from their dresden fab.
Sitronic has not only a deal about technology and products with STMicro, but als0 about the necessary equipment.
The Deal with AMD about equipment and technology was with Angstrem-T, in Selenograd. A rival in the russian microelectronics business, both former suppliers for the military industry, and possibly also today ...
DD
Thanks for the detailed info Divedevil
So far, so good. Anybody making chips those days outside China is for the goodness for the humankind.