Russia’s first large-scale production facility of microelectronics components made to the 45-nanometer and smaller design rule will be coming on-line outside Kaliningrad by the end of this fall, news agency RIA Novosti reported earlier this week.
Located in the town of Gusev, GS Nanotech Center will require a reported $130 million in investment and is expected to manufacture more than 10 million microchips per year.
The Center said its partner in this project is Portugal’s Nanium, a leading European memory chip maker.
GS Nanotech Center will be part of GS Technopolis, an innovation cluster that has been developing in Gusev since 2008. Its lead investor, General Satellite, is a sizable Russian supplier of pay TV equipment.
