Ministry of Industry and Trade signed a contract for the creation of equipment for the production of chips for 5.7 billion rubles

As it became known on November 22, 2021, Zelenograd Nanotechnological Center JSC won a tender from the Ministry of Industry and Trade for the development of a photolithographic installation (equipment for printing chips on silicon plates, which are then cut into chips) with a minimum topology of 130 nm. The contract value is 5.7 billion rubles.

According to Kommersant, citing materials on the public procurement website, the equipment that the performer needs to make should consist of a special optical device, including a photo template loading system, a camera with high temperature stabilization accuracy and software. Work must be done before November 2026.

Ministry of Industry and Trade signed a contract for the creation of equipment for the production of chips for 5.7 billion rubles

According to Anatoly Kovalev, Director General of the ZSTC, one of the main components of the equipment will be a domestic laser. The company considers several partners.

The 65 nm technology entered the market back in 2006, but it is in demand from the Russian electronic industry.

The technology of 130-65 nm is not the most modern, but the most advanced for modern microcontrollers and many peripheral microcircuits, "said Ivan Pokrovsky, executive director of the Association of Electric Developers and Manufacturers.

The top manager of the electronics manufacturer in a conversation with the newspaper noted that the potentially serial production of equipment can reduce the dependence of Russian companies on photolithographic installations of the Dutch ASML, but there is no talk of full import independence.

The publication "Kommersant" says that the lack of equipment is one of the main problems of the development of the domestic radio electronics industry. Until 2030, it is planned to develop equipment with design standards of 250-28 nm, as well as solutions for norms of 22-20 nm and 16-14 nm, follows from the industry strategy approved by the Government of the Russian Federation in January 2020.^[1]

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