Angstrem (company)

Angstrem JSC (Russian: АО Ангстрем) is a Moscow-based company involved in the design and fabrication of electronic products and semiconductors.[1] It produced a range of Soviet-era integrated circuits. After the fall of the Soviet Union, in 90s it has produced a line of calculators and bank cards.[1] By 2014 it reportedly adopted an insulated-gate bipolar transistor technology.[1]

JSC «Angstrem»
Native name
АО «Ангстрем»
TypeOpen Joint Stock Company
IndustryElectronics
Founded1963[1]
HeadquartersZelenograd, Moscow, Russia
Key people
Sergey Vorontsov (General Director)
ProductsIntegrated circuits
Revenue$25.2 million[2] (2016)
$591,044[2] (2016)
-$6.53 million[2] (2016)
Number of employees
1571 (2011)
ParentRuselectronics (Rostec)
Websitehttp://www.angstrem.ru/

In 2008 Angstrem JSC partnered (formed a corporate group) with an Angstrem-T company and promised to pay its debt of a loan given by a Russian state bank VEB.RF if the latter fails.[3][4] In 2017 the Angstrem-T was hit hard by Ukraine-related US sanctions and filled for bunkrupcy.[5] In 2018 the VEB.RF became a primary owner of the Angstrem-T and started to sell its equipment. Reportedly, by the time the Angstrem-T was only able to reach 250 nm node process.[6]

History
A military-purpose chip N1806KhM1 (Russian: Н1806ХМ1) of 1806 series made by Angstrem in the mid of 1989 (27th week of 1989). It's based on CMOS gate array technology and included up to 1500 transistors. The naming follows Soviet Union IC designation standard.

Soviet Union

Angstrem was founded on June 25, 1963, as NII-336 (Research Institute-336). It was later reorganized into the Research Institute of Fine Technology (Russian: НИИ точной технологии, NII tochnoy tekhnologii, NIITT) and Angstrem Factory as part of Scientific Production Association Science Center.

The company, along with Mikron (Moscow, Zelenograd) and Integral (Belarus, Minsk), was the main manufacturer of integrated circuits in the Soviet Union.

In 1981 Angstrem was awarded the Order of the October Revolution.

Russia

In 1993 NIITT and Angstrem Factory were privatized as a single company, Angstrem.

Sergei Veremeyenko acquired control of the three companies in 2004. In June 2008, these companies were transferred to a management company OOO Group Angstrem.[7] In early 2009, 50 percent of the shares of Angstrem and JSC Angstrem-M owned JSC Coal Trade and JSC Finance Contract Group were controlled by Sergei Veremeyenko. 25 percent belonged, through the Ruselectronics holding company, to the State Corporation Rostec and the Russian Federation. 11 percent were owned by the concern Sitronics, and 14 percent by minority shareholders.[8]

In August 2009, it was reported that Veremeyenko planned to transfer its stake in OAO Angstrem, JSC Angstrem-M, Renaissance Capital, Federal Property Management Agency and Management Angstrem in exchange for a promissory note debt, which is estimated at 200 million rubles.[8]

2010

In June 2012, JSC Russian Electronics increased its stake in OAO Angstrem up to 31 percent.[9]

Angstrem-T

In early 2007 it was widely speculated that AMD (now GlobalFoundries) was planning to sell its old 130nm-process equipment from plant located in Dresden, Germany to Angstrem-T, a company in Angstrem JSC corporate group, in order to speed up its upgrade to 300mm wafers.[10][11]

In 2008 the Angstrem-T, entered a joint venture with the German company M+W Zander (Exyte) to build a semiconductor plant in Zelenograd, Russia. It was intended to produce ICs designed for the production of integrated circuits with topological node size of 130nm (200mm wafers[12]). Total investment in the construction of this amounted to about $100 million and additional ~$100–130 millions was invested in the company, primarily for a clean room.[12] 6000 square meters of production facilities were built. The fab was provided with a central heating, electricity generation, and cooling system running on natural gas.[12]

In 2018 due to Ukraine-related US sanctions economically struggling and unable to pay its debt,[3] Angstrem-T went bunkrupt and was taken over by its primary creditor VEB.RF bank.[13][5] In 2020 the latter sued Angstrem JSC for partial damages as it was in surety of the loan given earlier to Angstrem-T by VEB.RF (2008).[4][14][6] At the time, the company was owned by Leonid Reiman, a Russian ex-minister.[14]

According to one report the bunkrupcy revealed that at the time the Angstrem-T was only able to reach 250 nm node process .[6]

Products
Integrated circuit K145IK17 (manufactured 1980, bearing Angstrem's old logo)
1013 series integrated circuits (manufactured 1992/1993, bearing Angstrem's newer "Hammer and sickle" logo) in an "Elektronika MK85" calculator (also from Angstrem)

See also

References
  1. "Ангстрем - О компании" [Angstrem - About company]. www.angstrem.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  2. http://www.e-disclosure.ru/portal/FileLoad.ashx?Fileid=1301818.
  3. Reuters (2018-10-18). "Russian High Tech Project Struggles after U.S. Sanctions". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  4. "К микросхемам припаялся иск". www.kommersant.ru (in Russian). 2020-09-09. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  5. "Russian state lender VEB takes over chip plant hit by U.S. sanctions". Reuters. 2019-01-10. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  6. "ВЭБ хочет передать оборудование «Ангстрем-Т» государству". Ведомости (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  7. «Angstrem" became the holding company / / "Kommersant», № 102 (3919), 18 June 2008
  8. / doc.aspx? DocsID = 1219320 "Angstrem" will be the Federal Property Management Agency / / "Kommersant», № 145 (4200), August 11, 2009
  9. «Daughter," "Russian Technologies" increased its stake in the company, "Angstrem" to 31% Archived 2012-11-02 at the Wayback Machine / / newspaper "RBC daily», from July 2, 2012
  10. PETER, CLARKE (June 6, 2007). "AMD Dresden likely source of 130-nm process, kit for Russia". EDN (magazine).
  11. "AMD to sell old equipment to Russia company". www.computerwoche.de (in German). November 9, 2006. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  12. Wiesmann, Marion. "M+W Zander errichtet Halbleiterfabrik in Russland". www.process.vogel.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  13. "The Story of the Soviet Z80 Processor | The CPU Shack Museum". The CPU Shack Museum | CPU History Museum for Intel CPUs, AMD Processor, Cyrix Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and more. 2021-01-27. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  14. "С бывших директоров «Ангстрем-Т» хотят взыскать миллионы за пропавшее оборудование" [Ex-executives of Angstrem-T are to pay millions for missing euipment]. CNews.ru (in Russian). September 7, 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  15. "Integrated circuits (IC) for computing devices". Zelenograd: Techno unity. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  16. "32-разрядный VAX-11/750-совместимый микропроцессорный комплект" [32-bit VAX-11/750-compatible microprocessor series] (in Russian). Zelenograd: Angstrem. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  17. "КН1871ВЕ1" [KN1871VE1] (PDF) (in Russian). Zelenograd: Angstrem. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  18. "32-разрядный RISC микропроцессорный комплект" [32-bit microprocessor family] (in Russian). Zelenograd: Angstrem. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  19. "8-разрядный микроконтроллер с архитектурой Тесей" [8-bit microcontroller architecture Theseus] (in Russian). Zelenograd: Angstrem. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  20. "КБ5004ВЕ1 Микроконтроллер интеллектуальной карты" [Microcontroller for intelligent cards KB5004VE1] (in Russian). Zelenograd: Angstrem. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  21. "НОВЫЕ ИЗДЕЛИЯ - Каталог 2018" [New products - catalog 2018] (PDF) (in Russian). Zelenograd: Angstrem. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 May 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2018.

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