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2023: Government allocates RUB 100 bln to create chip manufacturing equipment

The Russian government allocates 100 billion rubles for the creation of equipment for the production of chips. The Ministry of Industry and Trade told about this in mid-October 2023.

As Kommersant writes with reference to representatives of the department, these funds will be used to carry out development work (ROC) on the development of equipment for the production of micro, SVC, power and optoelectronics, as well as specialized materials. The financing process is planned to be organized by subsidizing work on existing mechanisms of state support, as well as work on public procurement under 44-FZ under the state program "Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation," the Ministry of Industry and Trade specified, without naming the share of budgetary and extrabudgetary sources.

The Russian government has allocated 100 billion rubles for the creation of equipment for the production of chips

By 2027, following the implementation of the financing program, the authorities expect to receive a full range of domestic equipment for semiconductor production. These will be installations that allow silicon wafers to be manufactured, processed and cut into chips. Also, subsidies will be directed to the development of computer-aided design (CAD) systems. The set of equipment includes photolithographs, ion implantation installations, plasmochemical etching clusters, silicon growth installations. The first domestic photolithographic installation for the production of semiconductors according to 350 nm standards is expected to be obtained in 2024.

The newspaper notes that against the background of investments by global industry players, 100 billion rubles of investments look modest. So, ASML only in 2022 sent €3.25 billion to R&D. Experts interviewed by the publication also noted that the problem is not only in money. The fact is that in Russia there are literally a few specialists capable of engaged in such developments.^[1]

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