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Sanctions have crippled Baikal's production and packaging capabilities

Why it matters: Global sanctions against Russian companies have worked in at least one respect: Baikal Electronics can no longer supply enough chips to meet the country's needs, and half of the chips it produces are defective. Russia is working to build up its domestic capabilities, but it is unclear whether it can catch up. 

Baikal Electronics, one of Russia's major processor developers, has been struggling in the wake of sanctions imposed by the US and UK governments following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Until then, the company ordered the production of chips, including their packaging, from TSMC.

The Taiwan-based chipmaker promptly stopped shipping processors that year because of the sanctions. The sanctions also blocked the Russian company from licensing Arm technology. Baikal, which switched from the Baikal-T series MIPS instruction set architecture to Arm years ago, used the technology in its Baikal-M, -S, and -L series chips.

The supply restrictions forced the company to turn inward to produce packaged and tested silicon. Russian business news outlet Vedomosti recently revealed that about half of the processors packaged in Russia are defective. A source told the paper that the failures are due to equipment that is not configured correctly and not having enough properly trained technicians for the chip packaging.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

50% of the time it works every time

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (39 children)

Yet another sign of Russian economy booming!

Since Putin and the trolls here on Lemmy claim that the Russian economy is booming, this must mean that Russian chip manufacturing sucked even more before Russia started using torture, rape and mass murder to try to invade Ukraine.

Note the "try"... Because, damn do they suck at invading other countries too....

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit

[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago

Here is a joke I heard in Moscow, in the early-‘90s:

Our Soviet computer sector was clearly the best. We built the largest chips in the world!

[–] [email protected] 77 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In Putin's Russia, even the chips defect.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Shots fired!

Unfortunately, they blew up in the tube, killing poor Ivan.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Bad news from Russia are good news! great to hear that they keep failing :)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Say what you will about Russia, but it had its fair share of amazing scientists.
I wonder if the next generation will rise from these restrictions or have they already been fed as fodder into the war machine?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

They had a lot of people and made any scientist/engineer who was successful into a celebrity.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

The problem is so many talented and gifted young men fled the country as the war began. The UK intelligence agency estimates 1.3 million, those were families that had someone talented enough to work abroad and or had enough money to start over somewhere else. Not to mention the meat grinder...

source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65790759

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The UDSSR had a quite good educational system. Communist countries usually had the lowest illiteracy rates

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago

The brain drain that happened because of this war will take Russia decades to reverse. All the smart scientists got out fast.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The future's looking bright for those Russian knock-off Steam Decks.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Apparently, exploding television sets were the leading cause of fires in Russian apartments in the 80s and 90s (per Adam Curtis' TraumaZone). Except this time you're literally holding it.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

FTA:

By 2030, the country's goal is to manufacture chips using a 28nm process technology – something TSMC did in 2011.

That's assuming they really do have no choice but to do all fabrication domestically.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

16nm from what I can tell on their Baikal-S

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

16nm from what I can tell on their Baikal-S

I'm only seeing 16nm from the units produced by TSMC. Do you have something current that shows the domestically produced ones are also of that gate width?

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago

Almost sounds like part of the plot of Reacher season 2.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

Only a 50% defect rate? By Russian standards that's absolutely outstanding

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