Processor developer Baikal localizes one of the most expensive stages for the production of chips

Baikal Electronics, which develops Baikal processors, will launch its chips at the Milandra and Micron facilities in Zelenograd. This became known on March 26, 2024.

According to Vedomosti, until February 2022, Baikal Electronics ordered the production of chips, including their housing, from the Taiwanese company TSMC. The Russian company hoped to increase annual production volumes to 600,000 chips by 2025 from 130 thousand units in 2021. But after the imposition of sanctions against Russia, TSMC ceased cooperation with Baikal Electronics.

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We have really been conducting experiments with our partners for the last two years to transfer the assembly of processors to domestic capacities, "Andrei Evdokimov, General Director of Baikal Electronics, told the publication.

Housing - the process of installing semiconductor crystals into the housing, completing the production stage of processors. This process is the most expensive at the stage of chip assembly. According to the head of Norsi-Trance, Sergei Ovchinnikov, experiments on processor packaging can lead to the development of domestic chip production. However, companies need to increase their rejection competencies, he said.

The head of the Association of Developers and Manufacturers of Electronics Ivan Pokrovsky says that by the end of March 2024, microprocessors can be built in Russia, but "they need to be designed taking into account the technological features of the existing production lines, to choose cases that will be available for delivery to Russia." Previously, such requirements were not taken into account, therefore, and it was not easy to postpone production, Pokrovsky noted. JSC "PKK Milander" was previously engaged only in the housing of microcontrollers and peripheral microcircuits.^[1]

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