The Ministry of Industry and Trade fined the Scientific and Production Center "Electronic Computing and Information Systems" (NPC "Elvis") 32.3 million rubles for missing the deadline for developing a microprocessor that was supposed to replace Texas Instruments chips, CNews reports. The fine was imposed in March 2026.
The contract between the Ministry of Industry and Trade and NPC "Elvis" was concluded in December 2017 for 1.58 billion rubles. According to the terms, the fourth stage of work — preliminary testing of prototypes — was to be completed by the developer in November 2020. In fact, this only happened in March 2024. The delay was 1204 days.
The chips being developed are intended to replace American Texas Instruments microcircuits of models TMS320C6672, TMS320C6674, and TMS320C6678. They are designed for processing large data streams in real time, including for video surveillance with object recognition and radar signal processing. Application areas include defense, space, medicine, and telecommunications.
According to the technical specifications, the microcircuit must include eight processor cores with MIPS64 architecture and at least 16 DSP cores with domestic architecture, supporting the processing of multispectral video images with video analytics.
This is not the first fine for NPC "Elvis". Earlier, the Ministry of Industry and Trade already penalized the company almost 50 million rubles for missing the deadline for the first stage of processor development for combat aircraft avionics. The company received another fine of 89 million rubles for a two-year delay in creating an analog of an imported microcircuit for drones and industrial meters. That project is now planned to be completed no earlier than 2026.
NPC "Elvis" was founded in 1990 on the basis of a division of NPO "Elas", which worked in the field of space electronics. Today, the company positions itself as one of the leading microcircuit design centers in the country. In 2021, the NPC announced the creation of three mobile processors: "Skif" for smartphones, as well as chips for AI systems and the Internet of Things. They were planned to be produced at the Taiwanese factory TSMC, but in 2022, contracts with Russian customers were frozen.
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