Mikron Group (russian: ОАО «НИИМЭ и Микрон»), headed by
JSC Mikron, is a manufacturer and exporter of microelectronics in Russia and the
CIS
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* cis (mathematics) (cis(''θ'')), a trigonome ...
.
Its facilities are located in
Zelenograd
Zelenograd ( rus, Зеленогра́д, p=zʲɪlʲɪnɐˈgrat, lit. ''green city'') is a city and administrative okrug of Moscow, Russia. The city of Zelenograd and the territory under its jurisdiction form the Zelenogradsky Administrative O ...
, Russia.
History
During the period from 1960–1980 Mikron developed microelectronic technologies for the
USSR
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.
In 2010, Mikron obtained a license for a
90 nm
The 90 nm process refers to the level of MOSFET (CMOS) fabrication process technology that was commercialized by the 2003–2005 timeframe, by leading semiconductor companies like Toshiba, Sony, Samsung, IBM, Intel, Fujitsu, TSMC, Elpid ...
process, with production starting around 2012–2013.
The 90 nm production facilities and the design center were co-financed almost up to 50% by
Rusnano
Rusnano Group (russian: Роснано АО, lit=Rosnano plc.) is a Russian state-established and funded company. The Rusnano Group's mission is to create competitive nanotechnology-based industry in Russia. Rusnano invests directly and through i ...
, with a total cost of 16,57 billion
Russian ruble
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, name_ab ...
s.
In 2014, due to the suspension of activities between
Visa
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,
MasterCard and certain Russian banks, Mikron hoped to receive orders related to the creation of the Russian national
card payment system to be launched in 2015.
In late 2014 it was announced that Mikron had started pilot production of a domestic microprocessor called
Elbrus-2SM
Elbrus-2S+ (russian: Эльбрус-2С+) is a multi-core microprocessor based on the Elbrus 2000 architecture developed by Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST). There are multiple reports regarding the evolution of this technology for the ...
using a
90 nm
The 90 nm process refers to the level of MOSFET (CMOS) fabrication process technology that was commercialized by the 2003–2005 timeframe, by leading semiconductor companies like Toshiba, Sony, Samsung, IBM, Intel, Fujitsu, TSMC, Elpid ...
process under the import substitution program in Russia.
Domestic production of the Elbrus-2SM microprocessor was selected by the readers of the technical magazine
CNews as the most significant event of 2014, while the creation of a national card payment system ranked at number 3 on the list.
The
65 nm
The 65 nm process is an advanced lithographic node used in volume CMOS ( MOSFET) semiconductor fabrication. Printed linewidths (i.e. transistor gate lengths) can reach as low as 25 nm on a nominally 65 nm process, while the pitc ...
process was also accomplished in the following years and passes qualification and refinement of the production process in 2020.
In April 2022, the
US Treasury Department
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imposed sanctions on 21 entities and 13 people, including Mikron, for their ties to
Russia following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Products
* 589 series
bit-slice
Bit slicing is a technique for constructing a processor from modules of processors of smaller bit width, for the purpose of increasing the word length; in theory to make an arbitrary ''n''-bit central processing unit (CPU). Each of these com ...
processor (equivalent to
Intel 3000
This generational list of Intel processors attempts to present all of Intel's processors from the pioneering 4-bit 4004 (1971) to the present high-end offerings. Concise technical data is given for each product.
Latest
13th generation Cor ...
)
*
1891 series CPU (
Elbrus 2000
The Elbrus 2000, E2K (russian: Эльбрус 2000) is a Russian 512-bit wide VLIW microprocessor developed by Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST) and fabricated by TSMC.
It supports two instruction set architectures (ISA):
* Elbrus VLIW ...
instruction set; designed by
MCST
MCST (russian: МЦСТ, acronym for Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies) is a Russian microprocessor company that was set up in 1992. Different types of processors made by MCST were used in personal computers, servers and computing systems. MC ...
)
*
1892 series CPUs (
MIPS32
MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures (ISA)Price, Charles (September 1995). ''MIPS IV Instruction Set'' (Revision 3.2), MIPS Technologies, ...
instruction set; designed by
ELVEES Multicore)
*
1907 series CPUs (
MIPS32
MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures (ISA)Price, Charles (September 1995). ''MIPS IV Instruction Set'' (Revision 3.2), MIPS Technologies, ...
instruction set, designed by the
)
Gallery
File:Architecture of Zelenograd (13951905716).jpg, Main office
File:Architecture of Zelenograd (13971802062).jpg, One of the engineering buildings
File:USSR K589IK02 1.jpg, Bit-slice processor K589IK02, manufactured 1989
File:Mikron-16m-90nm-package.jpg, 16Mbit SRAM 1663RU1, manufactured 2014
See also
*
Soviet integrated circuit designation
Soviet integrated circuit designation is an industrial specification for encoding of names of integrated circuits manufactured in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Union countries. 25 years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a number of ...
References
External links
Official website in Russian, more frequent news updateOfficial website in English*
Semiconductor companies of Russia
Manufacturing companies based in Moscow
RTI Systems
Zelenograd
Electronics companies of the Soviet Union
Ministry of the Electronics Industry (Soviet Union)
Electronics companies of Russia
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