Vzglyad published a commentary by Antonina Levashenko, Head of International Best Practices Analysis Department at the Gaidar Institute, on the development of microelectronics in Russia.
"Semiconductor manufacturing is an extremely complex process involving more than a thousand processes at the design, manufacturing, assembly, testing, and packaging stages. These stages, in turn, depend on a complex global ecosystem of resource suppliers, from chemicals to software. For example, the production of some integrated circuits requires up to 500 special chemicals. Some of these stages of semiconductor production are carried out by a small number of companies and economies. The US, Japan, and Taiwan are countries that have largely concentrated this market within their borders. Therefore, the idea of compensation between our and imported components is what needs to be done to allow the industry to develop," said the expert.
Antonina Levashenko also noted the strengths of Russian microelectronics, pointing out that “in Russia, things are going well primarily in the development of logic integrated circuits (ICs) and memory chips. Also, in the production of discrete semiconductor devices, analog ICs, optoelectronics, and sensors (DAO).”