Micron received an order for the production of 4 million chips for passports

2023: Order for 4M Foreign Passports Chips

About 4 million chips for biometric passports were ordered from the Micron plant, and 1.5 million of them are already ready. This was announced on June 1, 2023 by the Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Vasily Shpak.

Answering a question about the situation with the production of chips for biometric passports, he said that the difficulties that arose with their supply in February 2023 have been eliminated.

About 4 million chips for biometric passports were ordered from the Micron plant

According to the deputy head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the production of chips did not stop, but they could not satisfy all demand due to lack of production capacity. In addition, "certain problems have been imposed related to ensuring the production of the necessary chemistry and raw materials," he said.

Now all issues have been resolved, Micron is working normally within the framework of the contractual obligations of the existing schedules, - said the deputy minister (quoted by TASS).

According to the official statement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, on June 1, 2023, the acceptance of applications for the issuance of biometric passports (a new sample for a period of 10 years) resumed. Goznak confirmed that the organization is ready to issue new passports. The application can be submitted through the territorial body of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the MPSC or "Public services."

Deputy Director General for Operations of Micron Sergey Ranchin said that the plant, in the face of restrictions on access to European and American production equipment, changed it to Chinese, Belarusian and other countries, "is trying to increase its capacity in terms of production of 90-nanometer processors." Runchin added that a performance improvement program is underway.

But in the context of restrictions on the purchase of the best materials, practices and services, you have to develop by changing one horse for another, "he said.[1]

2013: 3.5 Million Foreign Passport Chips

NIIME and Micron will supply about 3.5 million microchips for passport and visa documents (new generation foreign passports) during 2013. This was announced to journalists on January 21, 2013 at a press conference by the Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov.

NIIME and Micron at the end of December 2012 won the Goznak competition for the supply of microchips. The company was the first to develop, bring to international standards and internal requirements of Russia the relevant software. According to Nikolai Nikiforov, domestic microcircuits will gradually supplant foreign counterparts in this and other markets.

According to the minister, two more Russian companies are engaged in the development of chips, which in the future will also be able to supply their products for Goznak. "This market can be competitive," he said.

In addition to Micron, Angstrom and Atlas maps are engaged in the development of domestic chips. As the head of corporate communications told TAdviser Group Angstrom Alexey Dianov, the company is now at the final stage of obtaining a certificate for its microchips in the FSB. "As soon as the certificate is received, we also plan to supply our products to Goznak," he said. It has not yet been possible to get a comment on the progress of certification in Atlas Maps.

According to the head of the Federal Migration Service of Russia Konstantin Romodanovsky, now about 75% of the total number of foreign passports is a new model. "In 2011, the department produced about 5 million foreign passports according to the applications of citizens, and in 2012 this figure reached 5.78 million. Every year the growth of manufactured passports is about 10%, "he said.

General Director of Goznak Arkady Trachuk told reporters that with such dynamic growth, the microchip used in the document was of foreign production. "The primary provider was NXP. Micron has been added now, "he said. According to Trachuk, the plans include a complete transition to chips of domestic production, but he did not tell about the exact timing.

According to the statement of the general director of Micron Gennady Krasnikov, the Russian chip wins over NXP in terms of price/quality parameters. He assured the audience that the functionality of the chip meets all the norms and requirements of both international standards and internal GOSTs.

According to a source close to Goznak, the domestic chip is more than one and a half times cheaper than its foreign counterpart. "One unit of production NXP costs 160, and rubles Micron - 100 rubles with almost identical functionality. Micron may have even more, "a source told TAdviser. According to him, it is necessary to wait for the completion of the development and testing of chips from other domestic manufacturers to compile a competitive market. The total cost of the state contract for the supply of microchips In micron To Goznak can be more than 350 million rubles.

2016: Prosecutor General's Office: State buys chips for biopasports with 65% overpayment

The Prosecutor General's Office checked the biopasports chips

As part of the audit of activities Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media State Office of Public Prosecutor , she made comments in November on the procedure for purchasing chips for biometric passports. As follows from the report on the results of the audit of the Prosecutor General's Office at the disposal, questions CNews were raised by the contract of the subordinate Ministry of Communications for Atlas Research and Development Center the purchase of the cryptographic protection means (CIPF) "Chrysolite"^[2]

NTC "Atlas" supplies SKZI "Chrysolite" to the state factory "Goznak," which is engaged in the production of passports, including foreign passports of a new generation with chips. The chips themselves are produced by the Mikron Zelenograd factory.

For more details, see: System for the manufacture and issuance of passport and visa documents of a new type (biopasports) - HS PVDNP

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