Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Russian chip manufacturer JSC Mikron is pushing ahead with its cooperation with STMicroelectronics NV. It plans to qualify the 0.18-micron CMOS process it is importing by the end of 2007 and begin mass production in 2008.
Mikron, a classic example of how Russian technical chip capability has stagnated in the 1990s, now plans to leap forward four or five manufacturing generations. It is currently manufacturing using 0.8-micron design rules, more or less the same level is has been at for a decade or more. With ST providing a logic and EEPROM manufacturing process, the company is continuing with a fresh start that has been going on for a couple of years.
Mikron is now part of Sitronics, a communications equipment company and consumer brand in Russia, which has plants in Athens, Prague and Kiev as well as in Zelenograd. Sitronics is in turn controlled by Sistema, one of Russia's biggest corporations said Andrei Golushko, deputy marketing director of Mikron. And Sitronics has already invested $200 million in Zelenograd, said Golushko.
And Mikron has a definite plan for the chips its wants to manufacture using the process.
By: DocMemory
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