More than half of Baikal processors turned out to be defective

The Russian company “Baikal Electronics” encountered a high percentage of defects in the production of its own processors. More than half of the processors turned out to be defective. “Vedomosti” writes about it.

Before the full-scale invasion of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine in February 2022, “Baikal Electronics” ordered the production of chips and housing (installation of semiconductor crystals in the housing) at the Taiwanese TSMC factory. The company planned to increase annual production volumes to 600,000 chips by 2025. But after the introduction of sanctions, TSMC stopped cooperation. 300 thousand “Baikal” processors did not make it to Russia.

At the end of 2021, “Baikal Electronics” began an experiment on housing its chips in Russia. Fyodor Boyarkov, vice-president for production development of GS Group, confirmed to Vedomosti that the experiment is still ongoing, but it is going slowly.

According to “Vedomosti” sources, more than half of the batches of chips at the electronics manufacturing companies turn out to be defective. It is noted that the reason for the high failure rate is outdated equipment and the lack of necessary experience among employees.

• After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian processor manufacturers came under a number of economic sanctions from the United States, the European Union, and other countries. The US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on a number of Russian IT companies, including Baikal Electronics and MCST (produces Elbrus processors). There is a complete ban on transactions with them.