From ExtremeTech: Russia has begun fabricating its own semiconductors, though it's apparently a tiny bit behind the rest of the civilized world in advanced technology. A Russian representative told a news outlet it's testing its first lithography machine. But at 350nm, it's positively ancient technology compared with even mature nodes developed in the rest of the civilized world.
Russia's Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Vasily Shpak, told TASS that the machine is currently being tested and will begin producing 350nm chips when it's ready. "We collected and made the first domestic lithograph. It is now being tested as part of the technological line in Zelenograd," said Shpak. In 1997, we had the 350nm Intel Pentium II and AMD K6 CPUs; Russia's first lithography efforts will be nearly 30 years behind current technology.
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