Brief Ukraine Post: China is selling semiconductors to Russia, and it's not a bad thing

[thewayne]

They're selling duds. Chinese manufacturers are dumping chip wafers that aren't passing quality control, and there's really nothing the Russians can do: what, they're going to complain to the World Trade Organization that the black market chips they're buying against trade sanctions are no good?

ROFL!

The failure rate of semiconductors shipped from China to Russia has increased by 1,900 percent in recent months, according to Russian national business daily Коммерсантъ (Kommersant).

Quoting an anonymous source, Kommersant states that before Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine the defect rate in imported silicon was two percent. Since that war commenced, Russian manufacturers have apparently faced 40 percent failure rates.

Even a two percent defect rate is sub-optimal, because products made of many components can therefore experience considerable quality problems. Forty percent failure rates mean supplies are perilously close to being unfit for purpose.

So the next time Putin says the sanctions are not affecting life in Russia, just smile and nod and remember this.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/18/russia_china_semiconductro_failure_rates/

Comments

[armiphlage]

And test equipment to detect such failures early in processing is both incredibly expensive, hard to procure, and sanctioned. Detecting failures after final assembly is multiple orders of magnitude more expensive to correct.