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This is why Russia makes their own chips in their own fabs for defense applications. [1] 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCST https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik
by narrator 9y ago
This is why Russia makes their own chips in their own fabs for defense applications. [1]
1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCST https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCST
- cabalamat 9y agoAs do all countries with any sense.
- yellowapple 9y agoAnd sufficient money and other resources. I'm all for national governments making their own hardware not subject to backdoors installed by other national governments, but there's a huge difference in capability between Russia and, say, Lebanon.
- lsjdfkljdfwkwdf 9y agoYou really have quite some faith in government, or defense contractors?
- cabalamat 9y agoThat's a good point. Big countries can afford to fab their own chips; small countries cannot. This has geopolitical considerations: The best option for a small country may be to decide which of the big countries it wants to be an ally or puppet of. Incidentally this is one reason I think the UK is daft to leave the EU.
- kijiki 9y agoThey're actually fabbed by TSMC. MCST is fabless, not an IDM.
- dchest 9y agoAccording to their videos, their most recent chips are made by TSMC, but the older ones are made in Russia (I believe these are used for war applications). When the Russian factory switches to a better fab process, they'll also use it for modern chips. Indeed, the Russian factory is not theirs, though, as they are fabless.