About SITRONICS Microelectronics

Corporate presentation

SITRONICS Microelectronics is one of the business divisions of the high-tech corporate group SITRONICS, the largest manufacturer and exporter of microelectronics in Russia and CIS. The division is headed by JSC Mikron, a plant with half a century’s history, the technological leader of Russian semiconductor industry. JSC Mikron performs scientific research, development, production and sale of integrated circuits, including for export.

In 2009, JSC Mikron, together with the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) and STMicroelectronics – one of the leaders of the world’s semiconductor industry, started implementing a project in creation of a chip production line using 90 nm process technology on 200 mm wafers. A trilateral agreement was signed in 2010 on technology transfer to Mikron and granting access to rules of designing 90 nm chips.

The business division SITRONICS Microelectronics also includes:
• Voronezh Semiconductor Plant - Mikron
• SITRONICS - Nano
• SITRONICS Smart Technologies
• SITRONICS Microdesign
• Trade missions in China and Taiwan
• Assembly factory in Shenzhen for chip assembling
• Research Institute for Precise Mechanical Engineering

The strategic goal of SITRONICS Microelectronics is dominating on the domestic market and positioning in local segments of the global market, including as a foundry-partner. In 2006 JSC Mikron, with STMicroelectronics support, began a project in production upgrade, within the framework of which the 180 nm EEPROM technology was transferred and mastered. 42 companies from 10 countries were equipment and materials suppliers and partners in infrastructure creation, such as M+W Zander, Air Liquid, Hager+Elsasser, Applied Materials, ASML and others. At present, integrated circuits on 200 nm wafers are manufactured in the clean room (opened in 2007), using the 180 nm EEPROM technology, for transport and smart cards, memory chips, prototypes of integrated circuits for social and bank cards, biometric passports.

SITRONICS Microelectronics has a complete production cycle from IC design up to its assembling and personalization, which allows independent production of a whole range of high-tech products for the mass market: intellectual cards – smart cards, transport and other RFID-cars (using the radio frequency identification technology), sim-cards, bank cards with a chip, social cards and other identification documents, new articles for industrial electronics.

Mikron has over 400 clients in Russia and 100 abroad. Among SITRONICS Microelectronics clients are the Moscow Underground, SPB GU “Transport Organizer”, state transport enterprises of the Nizhniy Novgorod Region, Kazan, other Russian cities, integrators, banks, mobile operators, Russian electronic industry enterprises, electronic component distributors, and manufacturers of initial complete equipment (OEM) in South-Eastern Asia.

In the 60-80-ies of the XX century the USSR was actively developing microelectronic technologies, ranking third after USA and Japan in the world semiconductor industry. JSC Mikron, having accumulated the best experience of the Soviet academic school, is developing its own scientific and research centre employing now about 400 persons. The company is cooperating on a permanent basis with over 60 scientific organizations – RAS institutes, state scientific centres of RF, technical universities, branch R&D institutes, STU and design centres. The cost of R&D is about 15% of company’s revenue.

Over 3,000 employees work at SITRONICS Microelectronics, of them about 1,700 are employed by JSC Mikron.
The company was certified by international auditors for compliance with the standards of the Quality Management System ISO 9001 and the Environmental Management System ISO 14001.

The company is a member of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA).