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The inability to mass-produce complex high-tech items is a known problem for Russia. It even effects chip production. For example, Russian flagship semiconducto
by _0w8t 5y ago
The inability to mass-produce complex high-tech items is a known problem for Russia. It even effects chip production. For example, Russian flagship semiconductor company mikron.ru was not able to switch from 90 to 65nm for the last like 6 or 7 years. 65nm is still listed as experimental [1]. I thought that this was some kind of a corruption tax or barrier that made it impossible to scale the production, but given how widespread was this, I started to suspect that other factors were at play.
[1] https://www.mikron.ru/capabilities/technology/ https://www.mikron.ru/capabilities/technology/
- gerikson 5y agoI can't judge if this Twitter thread is authoritive or not but it does raise some interesting points https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1501360272442896388?s=20 https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1501360272442896388?s...
- ttyprintk 5y agoThe night-vision system on T-14 was the prominent holdup; Russia could not source it from France as desired. I wager there are other chip problems like your example.
- _0w8t 5y agoSoviet Union had relatively good infrared optics. I guess Russia missed even that ability. But then the parallel answer with twitter link described why this happened perfectly.