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Angstrem (company)

Coordinates: 55°58′56″N 37°12′50″E / 55.98222°N 37.21389°E / 55.98222; 37.21389
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JSC «Angstrem»
Native name
АО «Ангстрем»
Company typeOpen Joint Stock Company
IndustryElectronics
Founded1963[1]
HeadquartersZelenograd, Moscow, Russia
Key people
Sergey Vorontsov (General Director)
ProductsIntegrated circuits
Revenue$25.2 million[2] (2016)
$591,044[2] (2016)
−$6.53 million[2] (2016)
Number of employees
1571 (2011)
ParentRuselectronics (Rostec)
Websitehttps://www.angstrem.ru/

Angstrem JSC (Russian: АО Ангстрем) is a Moscow-based company involved in the design and fabrication of electronic products and semiconductors.[1] It produced a range of Soviet-era integrated circuits. After the fall of the Soviet Union, in 90s it has produced a line of calculators and bank cards.[1]

History

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A military-purpose chip N1806KhM1 (Russian: Н1806ХМ1) of 1806 series made by Angstrem in the mid of 1989 (27th week of 1989). It's based on CMOS gate array technology and included up to 1500 transistors. The naming follows Soviet Union IC designation standard.

Soviet Union

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Angstrem was founded on June 25, 1963, as NII-336 (Research Institute-336). It was later reorganized into the Research Institute of Fine Technology (Russian: НИИ точной технологии, NII tochnoy tekhnologii, NIITT) and Angstrem Factory as part of Scientific Production Association Science Center.

The company, along with Mikron (Moscow, Zelenograd) and Integral (Belarus, Minsk), was the main manufacturer of integrated circuits in the Soviet Union.

In 1981 Angstrem was awarded the Order of the October Revolution. Up until 1991 the company was subject to Ministry of the Electronics Industry, USSR.

Russia

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In 1993 NIITT and Angstrem Factory were privatized as a single company, Angstrem.

Sergei Veremeyenko acquired control of the three companies in 2004. In June 2008, these companies were transferred to a management company OOO Group Angstrem.[3]

In 2008 Angstrem JSC partnered (formed a corporate group) with an Angstrem-T company and promised to pay its debt of a loan given by a Russian state bank VEB.RF if the latter fails to pay it.[4][5]

In early 2009, 50 percent of the shares of Angstrem and JSC Angstrem-M owned JSC Coal Trade and JSC Finance Contract Group were controlled by Sergei Veremeyenko. 25 percent belonged, through the Ruselectronics holding company, to the State Corporation Rostec and the Russian Federation. 11 percent were owned by the concern Sitronics, and 14 percent by minority shareholders.[6]

In August 2009, it was reported that Veremeyenko planned to transfer its stake in OAO Angstrem, JSC Angstrem-M, Renaissance Capital, Federal Property Management Agency and Management Angstrem in exchange for a promissory note debt, which is estimated at 200 million rubles.[6]

In June 2012, JSC Russian Electronics increased its stake in OAO Angstrem up to 31 percent.[7]

By 2014 it reportedly adopted an insulated-gate bipolar transistor technology.[1]

In 2017 however the Angstrem-T was hit hard by Ukraine-related US sanctions and filled for bankruptcy.[8] In 2018 the VEB.RF became a primary owner of the Angstrem-T and started to sell its equipment. It was reported that by the time of bankruptcy the Angstrem-T didn't reach 250 nm node process.[9]

In 2021 Russia adopted a microelectronics development strategy for the period up to 2030, which involves the creation of Russian silicon factories with production standards of 28 nm, 12-14 nm and even 5-7 nm, operating according to the Foundry production business model.[10]

In May 2023 the management of NPO Angstrem was transferred from L. Reiman's company to the Rostec structure; the decision does not provide for the seizure of assets.[11]

Angstrem-T

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In early 2007 it was widely speculated that AMD (now GlobalFoundries) was planning to sell its old 130 nm-process equipment from an unnamed plant located in Dresden, Germany to Angstrem-T, a company in Angstrem JSC corporate group, in order to speed up its upgrade to 300mm wafers.[12][13]

In 2008 the Angstrem-T, entered a joint venture with the German company M+W Zander (Exyte) to build a semiconductor plant in Zelenograd, Russia. It was intended to produce ICs designed for the production of integrated circuits with topological node size of 130 nm (200mm wafers[14]). Total investment in the construction of this plant amounted to about $100 million and additional ~$100–130 million was invested in the company later, with a significant share going for a clean room.[14] 6000 square meters of production facilities were built. The fab was provided with a central heating, electricity generation, and cooling system running on natural gas.[14]

In 2018 due to Ukraine-related US sanctions economically struggling and unable to pay its debt,[4] Angstrem-T went bankrupt and was taken over by its primary creditor VEB.RF bank.[15][8] In 2020 the latter sued Angstrem JSC for partial damages as it was in surety of the loan given earlier to Angstrem-T by VEB.RF (2008).[5][16][9] At the time, the company was owned by Leonid Reiman, a Russian ex-minister.[16] VEB.RF has acquired all Angstrem-T equipment via its subsidiary company called NM-Tech (Russian: «НМ-Тех») in mid 2021 that further has been contrated to produce banking cards for Mir (payment system).[17]

According to one report the bankruptcy revealed that at the time the Angstrem-T was only able to reach 250 nm node process.[9] It's also speculated that 3-year-long delivery delay of photolithography equipment (90-130 nm node) bought from AMD in 2009 has contributed to the company's insolvency.[18]

On February 22, 2022, in response to the recognition of Ukrainian break-away regions in Donetsk and Luhansk by Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has imposed sanctions on JSC Angstrem-T company freezing its assets and prohibiting individuals and entities in the United States' jurisdiction from doing businesses with it.[19]

Products

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Integrated circuit K145IK17 (manufactured 1980, bearing Angstrem's old logo)
1013 series integrated circuits (manufactured 1992/1993, bearing Angstrem's newer "Hammer and sickle" logo) in an "Elektronika MK85" calculator (also from Angstrem)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Ангстрем - О компании" [Angstrem - About company]. www.angstrem.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  2. ^ a b c http://www.e-disclosure.ru/portal/FileLoad.ashx?Fileid=1301818. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ «Angstrem" became the holding company / / "Kommersant», № 102 (3919), 18 June 2008
  4. ^ a b "Russian High Tech Project Struggles after U.S. Sanctions". The Moscow Times. Reuters. 2018-10-18. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  5. ^ a b "К микросхемам припаялся иск". www.kommersant.ru (in Russian). 2020-09-09. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  6. ^ a b / doc.aspx? DocsID = 1219320 "Angstrem" will be the Federal Property Management Agency[permanent dead link‍] / / "Kommersant», № 145 (4200), August 11, 2009
  7. ^ «Daughter," "Russian Technologies" increased its stake in the company, "Angstrem" to 31% Archived 2012-11-02 at the Wayback Machine / / newspaper "RBC daily», from July 2, 2012
  8. ^ a b "Russian state lender VEB takes over chip plant hit by U.S. sanctions". Reuters. 2019-01-10. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  9. ^ a b c "ВЭБ хочет передать оборудование "Ангстрем-Т" государству". Ведомости (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  10. ^ "ВЭБ.РФ выкупила все имущество «Ангстрем-Т», который сама же и обанкротила - CNews". CNews.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-06-06.
  11. ^ "«Ангстрем» передали под управление по указу Путина о гособоронзаказе". РБК (in Russian). 2023-05-12. Retrieved 2024-06-06.
  12. ^ PETER, CLARKE (June 6, 2007). "AMD Dresden likely source of 130-nm process, kit for Russia". EDN.
  13. ^ "AMD to sell old equipment to Russia company". www.computerwoche.de (in German). November 9, 2006. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  14. ^ a b c Wiesmann, Marion. "M+W Zander errichtet Halbleiterfabrik in Russland". www.process.vogel.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  15. ^ "The Story of the Soviet Z80 Processor | The CPU Shack Museum". The CPU Shack Museum | CPU History Museum for Intel CPUs, AMD Processor, Cyrix Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and more. 2021-01-27. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  16. ^ a b "С бывших директоров "Ангстрем-Т" хотят взыскать миллионы за пропавшее оборудование" [Ex-executives of Angstrem-T are to pay millions for missing equipment]. CNews.ru (in Russian). September 7, 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  17. ^ "ВЭБ.РФ выкупила все имущество "Ангстрем-Т", который сама же и обанкротила". CNews.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-10-25.
  18. ^ "Чип из машины" [Chips out of machine]. www.kommersant.ru (in Russian). 2021-11-18. Retrieved 2022-10-22.
  19. ^ "U.S. Treasury Imposes Immediate Economic Costs in Response to Actions in the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions". U.S. Department of the Treasury. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
  20. ^ a b c d e f g "Integrated circuits (IC) for computing devices". Zelenograd: Techno unity. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  21. ^ "32-разрядный VAX-11/750-совместимый микропроцессорный комплект" [32-bit VAX-11/750-compatible microprocessor series] (in Russian). Zelenograd: Angstrem. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  22. ^ "КН1871ВЕ1" [KN1871VE1] (PDF) (in Russian). Zelenograd: Angstrem. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  23. ^ "32-разрядный RISC микропроцессорный комплект" [32-bit microprocessor family] (in Russian). Zelenograd: Angstrem. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  24. ^ "8-разрядный микроконтроллер с архитектурой Тесей" [8-bit microcontroller architecture Theseus] (in Russian). Zelenograd: Angstrem. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  25. ^ "КБ5004ВЕ1 Микроконтроллер интеллектуальной карты" [Microcontroller for intelligent cards KB5004VE1] (in Russian). Zelenograd: Angstrem. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  26. ^ "НОВЫЕ ИЗДЕЛИЯ - Каталог 2018" [New products - catalog 2018] (PDF) (in Russian). Zelenograd: Angstrem. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 May 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
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