The world's largest microprocessor manufacturer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), did not transfer more than 150,000 processors to the Russian company Baikal Electronics in 2022, according to the company's CEO, Andrey Evdokimov.
Processors and other microcircuits were produced at the Taiwanese microelectronics industry enterprise under a contract scheme according to orders from abroad.
One of the customers was Baikal Electronics, which, before the spring of 2022, received about 60,000 processors of two models from the TSMC factory - Baikal-M for workstations and Baikal-T for telecom applications.
In total, we had orders for more than 200 thousand, and more than 150 thousand produced or partially produced processors remained frozen in Taiwan, they are still lying there, they are not given to us due to sanctions. And they don’t give the money back either.
Evdokimov also admitted that it is impossible to deploy the production of Baikal processors in Russia on its own without international cooperation. At the same time, work on the development of 28 nanometer technology is already underway.