Invasion Of Russia Makes Local CPU Production Slow, Foreign Manufacturers Prevent Export!

JAKARTA - The Russian invasion of Ukraine prompted giant Central Processing Unit (CPU) manufacturers such as AMD and Intel to leave the country, and it is currently not easy for local PC makers to get the chips they need.

There are several Russian companies that designed their own CPUs, but the chips were created by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).

Unfortunately, Taiwan also prohibits exporting chips to Russia. As a result, the country cannot replace foreign CPUs with its own.

According to a report by the Head of the Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Maksut Shadayev, this year it was reported that the country's PC and server makers, Elbrus and Baikal, only supplied 15,000 PCs and 8,000 servers. That's what's made in Taiwan.

"We will have more (PC and servers based on Russian CPUs) this year if a collection of Russian processors, Elbrus, Baikals, ordered and manufactured, are delivered," said Shadayey.

"The intellectual wealth and all the documentation are Russian, but no production facility in Russia can produce the CPU, which is why production is ordered in other countries," he added.

In June, the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) officially issued a list of banned high-tech products to Russia and Belarus, which are intended not to allow the country to use advanced technology for military purposes.

In particular, MOEA prohibits processor exports that perform more than 5 GFLOPS, operates at 25 MHz or higher, displays external interconnections with a data transfer rate of 2.5 MB per second or more, and has an ALU that is wider than 32 bits.

So that TSMC cannot send contracted chips to be produced in the country. TSMC is not the only company that doesn't or doesn't want to ship chips to Russia.

"Foreign producers who produce processors based on the Russian developer's blueprint refuse to fulfill orders by 2022, including chip shipments that have been produced," said Shadayev.

Launching TechSpot, Wednesday, December 21, Russia has targeted China's gray market for chip imports, but about 40 percent of them were found damaged. There is also a choice of China's own Loongson CPU, but the Asian state has banned its exports because China wants it for its own military industrial complex.