The Russian company "NM-Tech", which has almost stopped talking about its projects since 2022, plans to bring the "Fab-200" plant to full capacity in 2028. The site in Zelenograd is expected to become one of Russia's largest microchip production facilities on 200-mm silicon wafers.

The factory is not being built from scratch – it is developing on the basis of the bankrupt "Angstrem-T". Some of the equipment for the enterprise was once purchased from AMD, and it was already used. Now the plant is being reconstructed, modernized, and old installations are being integrated into a new technological process. VEB.RF previously opened a credit line of 116.4 billion rubles for "NM-Tech" for launch and equipment.

The design capacity of "Fab-200" is estimated at 15 thousand wafers per month. The company states that it has already mastered production according to 250 and 130 nm standards, and the 90 nm process is under development. The site plans to produce power transistors, analog-to-digital converters, and the secure NMT32 Smart microcontroller based on the RISC-V architecture. In addition, the factory will be able to accept orders from Russian developers who do not have their own production.

This is a significant volume for the industry: experts estimate Russian demand for capacities over 90 nm at approximately 30 thousand 200-mm wafers monthly, while existing capacities are loaded at about 8 thousand.

The main intrigue now is not the launch of the equipment itself, but whether the enterprise will be able to consistently produce good quality crystals of uniform quality. Additional risks include the maintenance of imported installations and the supply of wafers, photoresists, gases, ultra-pure chemicals, and spare parts. If these issues can be resolved, in 2028 Russian microelectronics will receive another large full-cycle factory.