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Hier blijkt dat Rusland toch wel wat industrie heeft betreft chips.
Kremlin green lights Mikron chip project
EE Times Europe
08/27/2008
BERLIN — Russia's Ministry of Industry and Trade has given formal approval to provide 27B roubles ($1.09B) to co-finance 65nm chip production, according to local reports.
Mikron, a unit of Sitronics, will manufacture the ICs. The plan calls for 65nm production down to 45nm on 300mm wafers. Mikron expects to be producing 10,000 wafers per month by 2010, according to officials.
The investment project was approved last week, CNews reports.
The entire project is estimated at 58B roubles ($2.3B), with Sitronics financing the remaining amount.
Also this month, Russia said it would put $25B in technology funding to promote national security and attempt to spark commercial activity. In separate funding, two R&D institutes were set up and officials said they are planning several more.