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Russian University Vows to Build 7nm Chipmaking Tools
A Russian institute is developing its own lithography scanner that could produce chips using 7nm-class fabrication technologies. The machine is under development, with the plan to build it by 2028. When it is ready, it should be more efficient than ASML's Twinscan NXT:2000i tool, whose development took over a decade.
[...] the Russian government rolled out a national program to develop the country's own 28nm-class fabrication technology by 2030, reverse engineer as many foreign chips as possible, and educate local talent to work on domestic chips.
However, there is a problem with a 28nm-class production node by 2030. Russia's most advanced fab can produce chips using a 65nm fabrication technology. Meanwhile, American and European makers of fab tools cannot supply their equipment to Russia due to sanctions, so the country has to design and build domestic wafer production equipment if it wants to adopt a 28nm node. Essentially, what has taken companies like ASML and Applied Materials decades to develop and iterate has to be done in about eight years.
Apparently, the Russian Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences intends to beat all expectations and produce a 7nm-capable lithography scanner by 2028, according to its plans published on Nizhy Novgorod Strategy Development website (via CNews).
Good luck with that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2022, @02:30PM (3 children)
Not the first group ready and willing to disappear budget money, nor will it be the last if Russia somehow avoids becoming a province of China.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 24 2022, @12:51AM
More of the same old, same old:
As the deadline approaches (and failure is also approaching), expect to see some of the key people leave Russia, perhaps to give a scientific paper...and then defect.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday October 24 2022, @05:49PM (1 child)
SLS will fly any year now.
Wouldn't China need to launch a "special military operation" first?
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday October 25 2022, @03:18PM
China tells it's citizens what to believe and they believe it fervently. No need for a "special military operation", a full blown war is fine with them. Though, I highly doubt we see an open conflict between Russia and China. MAD is still a thing and Russia has lots of Nukes. Aging though they may be.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"