News Russia completes development of 30-year-old outdated lithography tool

[Admin]

Russia's ZNTC and Belarus's Planar have completed the development of a 350nm-class lithography system, but despite its symbolic value, the machine lags far behind global standards.

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[Pierce2623]

The Motherland will rise again(20 years too late).

 

[Ryan_257]

Probably making chips that are meant for high reliability.
Think cars, microcontrollers, space, military, etc.
Unlike consumer CPUs and GPUs, these chips prioritize long lifecycle support, temperature tolerance, and reliability over sheer performance.

 

[Sippincider]

Probably making chips that are meant for high reliability.
Think cars, microcontrollers, space, military, etc.
Unlike consumer CPUs and GPUs, these chips prioritize long lifecycle support, temperature tolerance, and reliability over sheer performance.

100% this.

The process may be obsolete, but it's well within "good enough" for applications where reliability and longevity matter more than having this year's fastest cell phone.

 

[Pierce2623]

Probably making chips that are meant for high reliability.
Think cars, microcontrollers, space, military, etc.
Unlike consumer CPUs and GPUs, these chips prioritize long lifecycle support, temperature tolerance, and reliability over sheer performance.

Of course it is. You can’t make anything performance oriented by today’s standards on tools like that. This will be micro-controllers and things like that. Some automotive chips can definitely get by with processes that old but now most of those are on nodes more in the 100nm to 250nm range simply because there’s very little capacity available these days on nodes older than 250nm.

 

[phead128]

The most advanced fighter in the world, the F-35 fighter, uses 90nm process, and that has leading sensor fusion capability.

You really don't need the bleeding edge for many applications if you have enough space, cooling, and mobility is not an issue, even AI inference compute can get away with less than bleeding edge.

 

[FR33L35T3R]

It’s often said semiconductors are the new oil. If ASML's falls, it might turn out to be true – with Russia and China becoming the de facto resource holders. Think about this.

 

[Alex/AT]

Probably making chips that are meant for high reliability.
Think cars, microcontrollers, space, military, etc.
Unlike consumer CPUs and GPUs, these chips prioritize long lifecycle support, temperature tolerance, and reliability over sheer performance.

Single-of-a-kind experimental one for high reliability. [loud laugh]

 

[Sippincider]

Single-of-a-kind experimental one for high reliability. [loud laugh]

Nobody laughed during the Covid shortages of boring-but-crucial old node chips for vehicles and appliances.

Domestically we should be securing production of older but usable chips, as much if not more as the latest phone chips. Not a bad hedge move by Russia.

 

[Alex/AT]

Nobody laughed during the Covid shortages of boring-but-crucial old node chips for vehicles and appliances.

Domestically we should be securing production of older but usable chips, as much if not more as the latest phone chips. Not a bad hedge move by Russia.

Yeah, go for it. At least you'll have something to do and some time spent, doesn't matter if it's on stuff not really necessary.

 

[Captnimo]

Hmmm, commercially this is laughable(there’s not going to be a “made in Russia” chip craze), but domestically this is rather interesting(slightly concerning) with regards to Russia producing decent enough quality lenses, and raises serious questions about russias previously laughed at plan toward achieving an EUV system using xenon. Yields will probably be dismal, but since they don’t have to concern themselves with commercial success, Russias semi industry could actually reach their goals of self sufficiency by the 2030s.