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The Russian media "Kommersant" reported on September 20 that with the support of the Russian industry and trade department, NM-Tech, a wholly-owned company under the Russian State Development Bank, hired from Taiwan's chip foundry company Lianhua Electronics Served dozens of experts to assist Russia in creating and perfecting the semiconductor industry. UMC responded on September 22 that the experts referred to in the report were not employees who had recently resigned from UMC, but employees who had worked for UMC more than ten years ago.
Experts hired by NM-Tech include PCB circuit development engineers, designers and circuit engineers. These people will go to NM-Tech's chip factory called Angstrem-T in Zelenograd, Russia's Silicon Valley. The factory plans to open it in 2007. The second-hand equipment purchased from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in Dresden, Germany, plans to be able to complete the work of self-producing 130-90 nanometer process chips. The Angstrem-T factory was sanctioned by the U.S. in 2016 and it was difficult to continue to obtain foreign technology. The business situation was deteriorating. It filed for bankruptcy and reorganization in October 2019. About 115 million U.S. dollars).
The Russian government predicts that if the country's microelectronics industry is to develop, it must train at least 10,000 relevant technical personnel each year from now to 2030. Now, only about 1,500 technical personnel in this field graduate from all-Russian universities each year. It is far from meeting the needs of industry development. Therefore, it is imperative to introduce foreign experts on preferential terms at this stage.
According to other sources, this group of experts from Taiwan has already arrived this summer. Their contract period is five to ten years. The monthly salary of this group of senior experts is about 20,000 US dollars, which is much higher than that of Russia. The wage level of the same industry.
China's chip industry, which has also been sanctioned by the United States, is in a much better situation. According to a report by Global Network on June 23, Wen Xiaojun, director of the Institute of Electronic Information of the China Electronics Information Industry Development Institute, said in an interview that domestic 14nm chips will be available by the end of next year. To achieve mass production, domestic chips have ushered in the best moment. In Wen Xiaojun's view, the development of 14nm chips has overcome many technical problems: key equipment such as etching machines and thin film deposition have been developed from scratch and applied in large-scale production lines; breakthroughs have been made in 14nm process research and development; and subsequent packaging integration technology results Mass production is fully realized; hundreds of key materials, such as polishing agents and sputtering targets, have passed the assessment of large production lines and entered mass sales. These achievements have basically covered the entire industrial chain system of China's integrated circuits, and reversed the passive situation of the introduction of a complete set of process technologies.
14nm has become the most widely used process technology with the most market value. It has great development potential in AI chips, high-end processors, and automobiles. Its main applications include high-end consumer electronics, high-speed computing, and low-end power amplifiers. And baseband, AI, automobile, etc.
Statistics show that in the first half of 2019 only before the epidemic, the entire semiconductor sales market had reached 200 billion U.S. dollars. Among them, 65% of chips used 14nm process technology, only about 10% of chips used 7nm, and about 25% used 10nm and 12nm.
