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Bear in mind that it's a Russian site and they have a huge problem with producing or buying radiation-hardened chips. So it's kinda 'sour grapes' attitude.

• amartology 6y ago
  It's not "huge" problems. Russian state of art radhard design is mostly on par with what exists in Europe and just a couple of generations behind the USA. Most of production is obviously abroad, and nobody actually cares, as it involves much less money than Huawei case) Also, this site was chosen for publishing because it was easy and because they actually give you some audience. Getting the same attention at Medium would be much harder, and a copy of this text, which I posted at LinkedIn, got something like 60 views. LinkedIn has a great publication editor, by the way. If you have an advice on some better place where I could publish scipop texts about microchips, that would be really appreciated.
  • thrwway34 6y ago
    If they really were 'on par' then you won't have issues with your satellites.
    • amartology 6y ago
      This "you" doesn't apply to me as I don't live in Russia. The problems with satellites are mostly due to competely different factors, not the state of radhard IC design. For example, transition from imported to domestic EEE components is painful, as the demand is much higher than industry's capacity.
      • forgondolin 6y ago
        If I remember right. The north americans made a lot of noise when SpaceX managed to take Nasa people to space, because USA was relying on Russian space program, lol. So I think they are on par