Chip Chance Russia Shouldn’t Release – Free Press
The recent scarcity of microelectronics, something that has cropped up around every corner, has suddenly come about as a result of quite the opposite. Chips are now simply being replaced, all warehouses are full of them, demand is falling, and chip manufacturers are going bankrupt. Someone will become part of the business of more successful colleagues, but this local industry crisis will lead to bankruptcy. And here it would be possible not to yawn – and to acquire a couple of factories for the production of chips.
“Sales of companies involved in the production of chips are falling by about 30-50%. This is not a normal situation. Samsung is probably the only one that’s owned relatively unscathed thanks to business intelligence and diversification, but the South Korean giant’s semiconductor division is also heading for a loss.” He speaks Head of Research at HMC Investment & Securities Greg Roh.
Such a rapid turn from shortage to overproduction is explained by the fact that after the end of the “pandemic” people stopped buying computers for “home offices”. As well as smartphones, tablets and other gadgets too. For some reason, it is not explained why and for what they were bought during the lockdown period. Everything seems to be simple: people returned from remote work to their workplaces and everything seemed to be the same as before. That is, the demand for electronics has fallen catastrophically.
Not very convincing… Coronovirus seems to have been canceled a long time ago, no one is sitting at home, and stupid manufacturers continue to rivet unnecessary microcircuits for gadgets and PCs, when car electronics seem to be quickly not detected. By the way, about that deficit, too, somehow strangely, everyone suddenly fell silent …
What happens there, in the world of transnational corporations and acquires a special structure, let them figure it out themselves, we are, in fact, not particularly interested. But the fact, as they say, is obvious – the shares of electronics manufacturing companies are really falling, and everyone believes in some “unprecedented crisis” in the market. Their problems. But can our country have something to do with this – this is closer to the body.
Simply buying a lot of particles, most of which have a narrow specialization, is not the smartest decision. And they won’t sell. More precisely, it is for sale, but not everything.
“In any case, under the sanctions that appear on a microelectronic basis, the fastest and newest microcircuits in terms of computing power either do not form, or do not appear. Even if they reach Russia, it will be through a long supply chain – they will seriously rise in price, ” thinks Head of the design bureau “Robotics” at MIET Stanislav Shepelev.
But we still don’t need something ultra-modern. That is, it is necessary – in minimal volumes – however, this is already being slowly dragged through all sorts of “parallel” channels. Russia still needs microchips at about the level of 15-20 years ago. But a lot. So many.
In what state the radio-electronic industry of Russia is now, probably, it is not necessary to explain to anyone. Due to the fact that its use of products has no form – both in store warehouses and in some products that are not located. As expected, our “defense industry” also completely sits on foreign chips, that is, there is no need to even talk about some sort of secrecy. And in this situation it is urgent to change. There is a chance.
To start, in fact, almost from scratch, since all the developments of the Soviet era are no longer relevant, and there are almost no specialists of that era left. Although we can be christened old men and young specialists to several microelectronics factories, in principle, it is possible. As well as promptly train those who will stand on the assembly line, in other countries, after all, people with higher education do not work either.
A bankrupt firm buys “on the vine”, with all its assets, both material and intellectual. Personnel are hired as consultants, they will go for high salaries. As always, the price asks only for its price. And there is money in Russia.
This has already been done once in our country – under Stalin, during the years of great industrialization. Taking advantage of the “crisis” – the so-called Great Depression, that is, the redistribution of research areas between capitalists – our country gained access to the most modern technologies at that time. Today, apparently, processes are also taking place in the world, since it is impossible to explain the “chip crisis” otherwise. Don’t yawn!
Then everything worked out. Moreover, the personnel problem at the age of 30 arose much more acutely than today, the modern “victim of the Unified State Examination” is still the best asset, a deliberately illiterate peasant of the half of the twentieth century. But the Bolsheviks succeeded. Because there was an understanding that it was necessary to build a new country. You always want to create your own self-sufficient action. On the contrary, everything is done to ensure that it does not appear.
“Over the past year, the enterprise of the Russian Federation, all at the end, could increase the volume of domestic production by 6-7 times. But that did not happen. So, in terms of results, last year at our plant was very good – we increased production by 90%. Could have been a lot more. What prevented us? For example, the lack of working capital – for such volumes of production, banks did not increase lending to us, on the contrary, it was reduced by 10%. This is the policy of our financial authorities,” — General Director of the Cherepovets Foundry and Metallurgical Plant Vladimir Boglaev.
It is quite obvious that with such state control, any Russian risks will not occur, since they will be ineffective. Nothing will happen. Generally. Which calls into question the question of Russia as such. There is an understanding of this in our society.
“There is a war going on, a serious war, in which the West has set itself no less serious goals. Which are only in the second turn of the party. Because politics, whatever one may say, is still a derivative of the economy. Everything is extremely simple: the West entered a period of severe crisis, the model of the economy, which they were subjected to for a very long time, began to slip.
Money bubbles and pyramid schemes need to be supported by something real. You need to eat something – take possession. Russia is very rich. Everything is simpler and simpler, but they themselves openly say this – “we need to defeat Russia in order to strengthen our economic position.” Then there is politics,” the political scientist tries to reach out to our authorities. Lev Vershinin.
Are our officials so stupid that such obvious things have never happened? Did they forget the Great Patriotic War, when the West set itself the same goals? Apparently, the point here is different – they are all available, and no one has forgotten anything. Just different goals.
In theory, now from Moscow to all countries where chips are found, emissaries with well-known suitcases full of jambs should check. And it is no longer necessary to buy what is there, abroad. And we, on the contrary, need. But nothing like that happens. As the situation with the financing of enterprises, as well as the protection of domestic producers from the influx of imported goods, is not visible and not revealed.
Now our country has another “window of opportunity”, albeit, at first glance, small, but very important. And to miss it is a crime against the future of the Russian people. Which our enemies do not want to let in. Moreover, these enemies are not only external, but also food, but these are just the most dangerous. And who they are is easy to guess.