Russia Says It’s Assembled a Lithography Machine, Will Make 350nm Chips Soon (decades old tech)

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1. This is how they get around sanctions. No way they won’t catch up

2. For comparison.. TSMC was mass producing 5nm silicon April 2023 and most recently 3nm. Russia is building something that’s 70 times larger and was first mass produced in 1997 – almost thirty years ago. It’s going to be slow, hot and power hungry!

3. They’ll catch up faster than people expect. Same reason that China is catching up faster than anyone expected. A lot of what went into previous die size shrinks were advances in known understanding of material sciences and other related topics. All the pieces of the puzzle had to fall into place first before chip makers could figure out how to achieve the next die size shrink. But all those pieces are now in place, all Russia has to do is figure out how to build it.. I wouldn’t be surprised if they rapidly go from 350nm to something like 35nm in less than 5 years.