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Chairman of the Russian-Asian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RASPP) Vitaly Mankevich reported that he has no official information about a ban on deliveries of Loongson processors. According to him, even if such a ban appears, RASPP "has many ways to purchase such goods through third countries and smaller companies." He drew attention to the fact that all large Chinese companies that depend on the world market, in any case, try not to advertise deliveries to Russia.
States began to control argentina cell phone number list the sale of high-tech components to Russia for military use. The authorities required exporters to obtain a state license. At the same time, there were no restrictions on the supply of electronics for general use.

After the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine in February, the US banned the sale of any chips to the Russian military and imposed export restrictions on other Russian buyers. The EU and Taiwan later joined the sanctions. China has not officially imposed sanctions on Russia.

There are five main microprocessor developers in Russia: MCST, Baikal, Modul, Elvis, and Milandr. Thus, before the special operation, the developer of Russian Elbrus processors — JSC MCST — produced them in Taiwan. As RBC wrote, against the backdrop of sanctions, MCST planned to transfer chip production to the Russian Mikron plant in Zelenograd.

In addition to Mikron, Zelenograd also has a production facility called NM-Tech. In May, the company began building a factory to produce 28 nm processors. NM-Tech previously brought specialists from Taiwan to Russia to work at its production facility.