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Russia Finds Out It’s Not That Easy To Make Their Own Chips

In late February, leading CPU manufacturers AMD and Intel left the Russian market after the invasion of Ukraine. As a result, Russian PC makers have struggled to obtain the necessary chips. While there are several Russian companies that design their own processors, these chips are made by TSMC in Taiwan, which no longer allows exports to Russia. This means that Russia is unable to replace foreign CPUs with its own.

According to Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, Russian makers of PCs and servers have only supplied around 15,000 PCs and 8,000 servers based on Elbrus and Baikal processors, which are designed in Russia but made in Taiwan. The head of the ministry, Maksut Shadayev, stated that there would have been more of these PCs and servers available this year if the batches of Russian processors had been shipped. However, due to restrictions on high-tech exports to Russia from the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union, Taiwanese companies stopped working with Russia after the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

As a result, Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs officially issued a list of high-tech products that are banned from shipping to Russia and Belarus, in an effort to prevent the countries from using advanced technology for military purposes. This ban includes processors with performance of over 5 GFLOPS, operating at 25 MHz or higher, featuring an external interconnection with a data transfer rate of 2.5 MB/s or over, and/or having an ALU wider than 32 bits. Essentially, Taiwan does not allow exports of advanced processors to Russia, so TSMC is unable to ship the chips it was contracted to produce for the country. Shadayev also stated that foreign manufacturers who produce processors based on blueprints from Russian developers have refused to fulfill orders in 2022, including shipping already produced chips.

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