Despite all odds, Russia hopes to kick off local mass production of chips using its domestic 28nm-class process technology by 2030, just as it expected several years ago. This 28nm process technology will purportedly enable MCST, the developer of SPARC-based Elbrus processors, to build CPUs with performance that meets the expectations of Russian companies. However, some argue that the Elbrus ecosystem has to develop before the adoption of such processors becomes viable.
"We hope that such fabs will emerge between 2028 and 2030," said Konstantin Trushkin, Deputy Director for Development at MCST, at an event in Moscow, according to ComNews (state affiliation unknown). "But we understand that we will not be able to manufacture processors based on Intel [x86] instruction set architecture, because no one will grant us the rights to do so. Therefore, processors with different ISAs — such as Elbrus — will be products at domestic fabs."
