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Zichan

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I was pointing to China can't make it part of your little post, of course you would know, hmmm?
Not at the state-of-the-art level. Xilinx FPGAs have been produced on 7nm since 2019. SMIC's best commercialized process at the moment is 14nm, and that's at rather low volume compared to their overall portfolio.

Texas Instruments and American companies in general are market leaders in analog RF ICs. Even Huawei phones used large numbers of American made RF chips.
 

subotai1

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Still, compared with volume of civilians chips is still droplets in a ocean, apple alone probably consume more advanced chips than U.S military. The only problem i see is that making high end fab to serve a small niche market like the military is not profitable its have to be subsidized by the government or couple with civilian chips.
This is the reason that so many weapons systems are actually COTS components (for the electronics) and the real innovation being the software and system integration. The other reason is that the commercial market is evolving far faster than a proprietary - military oriented design.
 

sferrin

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Still, compared with volume of civilians chips is still droplets in a ocean, apple alone probably consume more advanced chips than U.S military. The only problem i see is that making high end fab to serve a small niche market like the military is not profitable its have to be subsidized by the government or couple with civilian chips.
This is indeed the case and why the US gov tries to go COTS where it can. The adoption of the Intel 960 on the F-22 ended up being a problem because the chip was obsolete, and out of production before the plane even got into service. I know there was some agreement between Intel and the DoD on this situation but don't recall the details. There was something similar with a radiation hardened version of one of Apples old PowerPC chips.
 

enroger

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Not at the state-of-the-art level. Xilinx FPGAs have been produced on 7nm since 2019. SMIC's best commercialized process at the moment is 14nm, and that's at rather low volume compared to their overall portfolio.

Texas Instruments and American companies in general are market leaders in analog RF ICs.

Yet with the sanction going on Huawei's comm department is doing just fine rolling out 5G's left and right. I guess state of the art doesn't mean as much as you think.
 

Abominable

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This has been going since the start. Social media and even the UK government keep fanning the flames talking about "Russian saboteurs", even though there's ZERO evidence of any operating in Kiev. It doesn't even make any sense.

To me it looks like a pogrom of Russian and ethnic minorities, Rwanda style. Russia better step in to Kiev soon to sort this mess out.
 

Anlsvrthng

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Ask @Tam. He posted T/R radar element photos of Russian AESA designs with American chips visible.
There is no news about Russian ICs since 2015.

Due to sanctions they don't want to give clues about the capabilities/processes that they use.

But again, Russia had 8 years to prepare with China , so the options:
1. Russians stupid, and accetping the short term degradation of basic military CnC capapabilities due to IC shortage
2. PRepared and has they own 45/25nm production lines for military ICs.


And generally, Xylinx FPGA 7nm make sense because it is cheaper if you want to make 5 ICs.

If there is demand in the 1000s then cusomt fabricated IC on 45nm makes more sense, and has higher performance.
 

siegecrossbow

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I think the Russians should invest more in UAVs and collaborate more in that area with China, to think they only had 30 of this:
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Kronshtadt Orion


while the Chinese already are flying this:
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And exporting this:
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is interesting to say a least.

Maybe is Russian pride but they should have imported more drones from China.

Exporting this.

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And stalking carrier battlegroups with this.

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