Oct 03, 2024 19:00:00

Russia to invest over 360 billion yen in domestic semiconductor production, aiming to produce 65nm semiconductors on its own by 2030

The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade and the International Science and Technology Center have drawn up a comprehensive program to domestically produce equipment for the manufacture of electronic equipment by 2030. The program calls for the launch of 110 research and development projects, with an investment of more than 240 billion rubles (approximately 368 billion yen).

На импортозамещение оборудования для производства электроники в России больше 240 млрд рублей - CNews

https://www.cnews.ru/news/top/2024-10-01_na_importozameshchenie_oborudovaniya

Russia to spend $2.54 billion on its own chipmaking tools industry by 2030 | Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/russia-to-spend-dollar254-billion-on-its-own-chipmaking-tools-industry-by-2030

The program, developed by Russia's Ministry of Industry and Trade and the MIET International Science and Technology Center, aims to increase the domestic content of equipment and materials for electronics manufacturing to about 70 percent by 2030. This is a significant improvement considering that at the time of writing, only about 12 percent of the more than 400 equipment models in use in Russia can be produced domestically.

The specific development goals of the program are as follows: 'By the end of 2026, be able to carry out a series of processes such as single crystal growth, cutting, polishing, cleaning, drying, element formation, and shipping inspection using domestically produced equipment;' 'Develop UV exposure equipment compatible with 350nm and 130nm process nodes;' 'Develop electron beam lithography equipment for the 150nm process;' 'Achieve production of scanners for 65 to 90nm process nodes by 2030;' and 'Master epitaxial technology by 2026.'

A total of 110 research and development projects are planned, including the development of materials and chemicals, and the construction of automated design systems, making the program quite large-scale. However, due to

economic sanctions from the United States and other Western countries, the price of the necessary equipment has risen by about 40-50%. Therefore, in terms of funding, a budget of more than 240 billion rubles is scheduled to be allocated by 2030.

The budget size of over 240 billion rubles is a significant investment for Russia's electronics manufacturing industry, but it is not significant compared to the investment scale of the global semiconductor industry.

Hardware news site Tom's Hardware pointed out that the project's budget is only about 1/57th of Russia's defense spending for the war against Ukraine, and said, 'Given the insufficient scale of investment, the vagueness of the plan, and Russia's technological backwardness, the feasibility remains questionable.'