Developer of Elbrus processors transfers their production from Taiwan to Russia

At the end of May 2022, it became known about the decision of the ICST company, which is the developer of the Russian Elbrus processors, to transfer their production from Taiwan to the Russian Federation.

As explained by RBC Konstantin Trushkin, deputy general director for marketing at the ICST, sanctions closed access to foreign factories for the company, so it was decided to transfer production to the Micron factory in Zelenograd.

Developer of Elbrus processors transfers their production from Taiwan to Russia

We see that in domestic factories you can create decent processors with sovereign Russian technologies for critical information infrastructure, information security and other markets, "he said.

At the same time, the deputy head of the ICST noted "a large reserve in the processing of source code and the optimization of software for the Elbrus architecture."

According to a RBC source in the ICST IT market, it will take at least a year and several billion rubles to transfer production to Micron. Trushkin also said that there are "difficult moments" that prevent the domestic factory from entering full-fledged mass production.

MCST produces various processors in topology from 130 nm to 16 nm, follows from the information on the company's website by the end of May 2022. As RBC wrote, Micron can produce processors using 90 nm technology.

According to Nikolai Komlev, director of the Association of Computer and Information Technology Enterprises (APKIT), to increase the speed of the product, adapted software for Elbrus processors is needed, with which there are also problems. Komlev notes that investing in such a development is not entirely promising, given the obviously small circulation of the released Elbrus.

By 2025, Micron plans to increase the production of silicon plates for the production of 180-90 nm chips from 3 thousand to 6 thousand per month. To do this, Micron will need, according to Kommersant, about 10 billion rubles - they are planned to receive them as part of the government's national project for the development of electronics until 2030.^[1]

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