kvs wrote:
I should have been more clear. Currently high resolution IC production is offshored. Russia is transitioning to 28 nm and smaller process manufacturing.
By 2030 I think they will have 14 nm equipment domestically produced. They basically financed projects that result in such EUV/X-ray equipment.
Note that Russia is not starting from scratch so the projects are not pie in the sky.
In the next 10 years Russia needs to shop around where it can find such IC production capacity and that means China. There are no other choices since
Taiwan is over and western fabs are no longer accessible. This sort of pain is exactly what Russia needs to get going. In fact, pain/coercion is the prime
motivator for biological systems which includes societies.
Yes that's true, but why would it not be possible for Russia to make these IC? I understand the economical approach,
To have built cheap, and to make a profit for companies to be competitive
But is it not possible to do it domestically?
Even if the costs are higher, is there no way to localize the production and raise other benchmarks like wages and ultimately sales cost(to consumer) to compensate for the higher cost of production ?
At least to satisfy local demand, then once Russian chipmakers and hardware makers have control over the market, THEN they can offshore to export it to the other countries?