Semiconductors (s/c) Thailand and Russia
Grows of s/c production in Thailand
I needed these data for my lecture. I googled “Thai semiconductor production” and tens of semiconductor companies popped up. Many Japanese and American companies have s/c fabs in Thailand. That means jobs for production, research, and development, i. e. interesting high tech jobs, well paid. Thailand is the second, after Japan, country in the world producing hard disk drives for computers.
Russia has 4 s/c fabs: Zelenograd, Fryazino, Voronej, Novosibirsk. The most advanced is Mikron ( Zelenograd)
“Impressive progress is being made in Russia's semiconductor segment, and within three to five years Russia could be only one or two generations behind the ITRS, boldly predicted Alexander Kalinin, deputy chairman, Russian Federal Fund for Electronics Development on Europe's Industry Strategy Symposium
“This has occurred despite the fact that semiconductor manufacturing has been less fundamental to the Russian economy (representing just 0.01% of the Russian economy) than to the world economy, since most of the Soviet industry has been government-oriented with hardly any commercial chip design, and has been using 15-20-year-old equipment, he explained. A new $1 billion government strategy for 2007-2011 aims to improve design infrastructure and product development and upgrade existing facilities to 200mm/0.18µm, plus construct a new 300mm/90nm-65nm, 10,000 WPM fab (location TBD) that will require at least another $1 billion in purely private investment.”
“Eventually the Russian government plans to invest $30 million in ten centers like the Elves Design Centre in Zelenograd (near Moscow), which is mass-producing multichip 0.25µm cores with some 25 million transistors on 12.5x12.4mm silicon, Kalinin said. A national mask facility now using 365nm lithography expects to adopt 248nm and 193nm lithography, utilizing phase shift mask and optical proximity correction. Investments of $30 million (government) and $200 million (private) in Russia's Mikron Corp. are for 0.18µm small-scale manufacturing and joint partnerships, including two million SIM cards/month.”
Russians work now on 4 inch Si wafers, while in America 12-inch wafers are used for a few years and Intel is developing now 15-inch technology. Americans work on 0.095 and develop 0.065 µm technology, while Russia uses 0.365 µm.
Now compare Russia and Thailand. The first University in Russia was opened in St Petersburg by Peter the great in 1720th. The first University in Thailand was opened 100 years ago. A great Russian scientist A. F. Ioffe was among the beginners of the semiconductor research in the word. His students Goriunova, Kolomiets, Tuchkevich were the world renowned scientists. How Russia lost all this glory and now is years behind not only of America, but even behind of Thailand? Some time later I will write the response to this question.
Grows of s/c production in Thailand
Of curiosity, I made the same research for Russia. I felt ill after that.
Russia has 4 s/c fabs: Zelenograd, Fryazino, Voronej, Novosibirsk. The most advanced is Mikron ( Zelenograd)
“Impressive progress is being made in Russia's semiconductor segment, and within three to five years Russia could be only one or two generations behind the ITRS, boldly predicted Alexander Kalinin, deputy chairman, Russian Federal Fund for Electronics Development on Europe's Industry Strategy Symposium
“This has occurred despite the fact that semiconductor manufacturing has been less fundamental to the Russian economy (representing just 0.01% of the Russian economy) than to the world economy, since most of the Soviet industry has been government-oriented with hardly any commercial chip design, and has been using 15-20-year-old equipment, he explained. A new $1 billion government strategy for 2007-2011 aims to improve design infrastructure and product development and upgrade existing facilities to 200mm/0.18µm, plus construct a new 300mm/90nm-65nm, 10,000 WPM fab (location TBD) that will require at least another $1 billion in purely private investment.”
“Eventually the Russian government plans to invest $30 million in ten centers like the Elves Design Centre in Zelenograd (near Moscow), which is mass-producing multichip 0.25µm cores with some 25 million transistors on 12.5x12.4mm silicon, Kalinin said. A national mask facility now using 365nm lithography expects to adopt 248nm and 193nm lithography, utilizing phase shift mask and optical proximity correction. Investments of $30 million (government) and $200 million (private) in Russia's Mikron Corp. are for 0.18µm small-scale manufacturing and joint partnerships, including two million SIM cards/month.”
Russians work now on 4 inch Si wafers, while in America 12-inch wafers are used for a few years and Intel is developing now 15-inch technology. Americans work on 0.095 and develop 0.065 µm technology, while Russia uses 0.365 µm.
Now compare Russia and Thailand. The first University in Russia was opened in St Petersburg by Peter the great in 1720th. The first University in Thailand was opened 100 years ago. A great Russian scientist A. F. Ioffe was among the beginners of the semiconductor research in the word. His students Goriunova, Kolomiets, Tuchkevich were the world renowned scientists. How Russia lost all this glory and now is years behind not only of America, but even behind of Thailand? Some time later I will write the response to this question.
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