tl;dr: Intel and AMD are not selling their processors to Russia, and processors from Russian companies cannot be manufactured as Taiwan is banning TSMC from doing so, while Russia can only produce chips up to a 90 nm process.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    First, Russia is able to produce their own domestic chips, second Russia can import chips from CSMC which is in China and doesn’t care about US sanctions one bit. What I’m reading here is that Chinese foundries just got a big new market opened up to them without any competition.

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      2 years ago

      The article mentioned Russia’s domestic production. It said their domestic factories can only produce 90nm chips, which is believable.

      As far as the latter part of what you said is concerned, that was my same takeaway. China proper is the second most advanced manufacturer of transistors and has good trade relations with Russia; to the extent that their earlier declaration of friendship read more like a marriage declaration. These western sanctions only amount to Chinese protectionism. Its a huge boon to Chinese and Russian technological development and cooperation.

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      2 years ago

      First, producing silicone monocrystals does not equal the ability to produce modern chips. The only somewhat significant semiconductor producer from Russia, Mikron Group, announced in 2020 that they would start using the 65nm process, a process that has been available since 2005.

      So the biggest domestic manufacturer is 15-20 years behind the West and mainland Chinese manufacturers have a global market share of 8% compared to Taiwan’s 66% (and American lap dog Korea with 17%).

      Sorry to break it to you buddy but its not looking good for the Russians