By the end of 2022, Russia’s domestic market for processors and chips largely held steady despite sanctions and the withdrawal of several foreign manufacturers. Suppliers from China and South Korea posted the strongest growth, while shipments from American firms declined significantly, according to market participants cited by Kommersant.
In 2022 Russia imported roughly 782,000 Intel processors, about 9 percent more than the prior year. Deliveries from AMD, another American maker, dropped by half to 143,000 units. One source noted that supplies from other companies, including those from China and Korea, rose about 2.5 times, reaching 102,000 units.
The Federal Customs Service reported that in 2022 total shipments of chips built on 32 nanometer and smaller process technologies declined slightly, by 0.7 percent, to about 1.03 million units. Intel maintained its position as the top supplier by shipment count. Rounding out the top five were Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, AMD with its Xilinx portfolio, and STMicroelectronics of Switzerland, all contributing sizable shares to the market.
On March 15, the National Center for Physics and Mathematics announced that Russian researchers had advanced a lithography project aimed at microcircuit fabrication using X-ray techniques. The project is described as achieving an output power in the 11.2 nanometer range through X-ray lithography, signaling a potential future direction for domestic chip manufacturing.