They can be used in payment terminals by bank card or telephone
According to Kommersant, Rosatom and Aquarius create a joint venture to produce microcontrollers for data encryption in computer technology. A source familiar with the project told the publication about this, but the companies themselves did not confirm the information. Such controllers are designed for servers, data storage systems and other computer equipment. They can be used, for example, in payment terminals by bank card or telephone.
A center for the development of microcontrollers will be created in Ivanovo, and they want to launch production with a volume of 10-100 thousand units per year at the Aquarius plant. in Shuya. According to the source, investments in the project will amount to about 100 million rubles. However, experts doubt that these funds will be enough: to produce microcontrollers, it is necessary to master lithographic production, the full launch of which requires more than 100 million rubles.
The publication's interlocutor among computer manufacturers said that the development of components will be carried out by former employees of Baikal Electronics, whom Aquarius hired in 2023. Most likely, Russian microcontrollers will work on ARM architecture, so its foreign owners will be able to control all the components of the component. Therefore, the decisions of Rosatom and Aquarius are unlikely to meet the requirements of Russian regulators for data protection on domestic devices — The publication’s interlocutor thinks so.