The Kremlin is hunting for microchip, which depends largely on the outcome of the war
Having shot much more rockets from its reserve than initially planned, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is now increasingly relying on the development of the Soviet model, while the Ukrainian army causes point blows in the warehouses of ammunition and key infrastructure objects such as bridges. About it reports Politico.
In Kiev, they are aware that the result of the war depends largely on whether the Kremlin will be able to access the high -tech microchips used in rockets and military equipment. Ukraine warns the world public that the Kremlin is trying to buy high -tech components for its weapons by all truths and wrongs: semiconductors, transmitters, transformers, transistors and more.
For the most part, these components are manufactured by companies from the US, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Taiwan and Japan. At the disposal of the US edition there was a list of necessary electronic components - from the least priority. Even the price is up to a penny that Moscow is ready to pay for them. Some experts have confirmed that these data coincide with the results of other studies on military equipment.
The main problem is that countries such as China can acquire these technologies and continue to resell them to Moscow. In some cases, the Russians extract home electronics chips such as refrigerators and dishwashers. This was stated in May by US Minister of Commerce Gina Raymomondo, noting that in Russia there is an acute shortage of high -tech semicological semicologists for their weapons program.
Russia is most in need of microchips of American companies Marvell, Intel, Holt, Issi, Microchip, Micron, Broadcom and Texas Instruments, Japanese Renesas, which was purchased by US IDT. The Russian Federation and the development of the German manufacturer Infineon are needed. The Kremlin's "Vyshlist" also includes a chip of the American firm Vicor and the removal of the American developer Airborn.
Some of the mentioned components are easily found on electronic retailers' sites, while others have not been around the global microchip deficit for several months. The cheapest of this list is the 88E1322-AO-BAM2I000 network transiver. Moscow is ready to buy them for 430 rubles 83 pennies apiece (about 7 euros). The most expensive is the 10M04DCF256I7G valve -programmed user -programmed user.
It is ready to buy 66 815 77 (1 107 euros) apiece in the Russian Federation, while earlier this part cost only 20 euros. The Russian Federation is very needed by the German Harting components, the Dutch Nexperia (in 2019 absorbed by Chinese Wingtech). The Russians hunt a number of components of Harting. The director of Rusi Analytical Company James Burne believes that Russia may have accumulated over the years of western microchips for years, but now they may be exhausted.
"They have been sent to Ukraine so much . . . and now they need new deliveries. But sanctions are complicating. Therefore, these priority lists appear, and we see such documents. We believe that they have difficulty in delivery," Burne said. Experts warn that it is not always possible to control the supply of dual -use technologies.
"As soon as the chips leave the borders of the factories, it is very difficult to trace where they will end up," - explained Diederik KPS, senior export export of Flemish Peace Institute, a research organization related to the Flemish Parliament. The Russian Federation has several bypasses for purchases: to buy on unregulated online sites, or to use false companies for smuggling of microelectronics.
Damin Splitters, Deputy Director of Conflict ArmAntarch (CAR), arms tracking organization, in particular, components used in the war in Ukraine, believes that it is premature to talk about how effective sanctions are. "Everything we saw still has been done before the invasion. These are stocks that were made before the sanctions," he explained.
But some US national defense representatives disagree with the optimistic estimates of President Joe Baiden's team and indicate that the United States cannot interfere with other countries, including China, to supply microchips to the Russian Federation. "The border between Russia and China is 4300 km. Uses electronics from 144 foreign companies for its military equipment. Some helicopters and rockets contain chips made last year.