At the first stage, the company plans to produce 300 thousand motherboards annually,
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:41 am
The plant is located in the special economic zone "Innopolis". It will produce surface mounting of printed circuit boards with the installation of Intel, AMD, Elbrus and Baikal processors. It is also expected that the launch will double the volume of assembly of system units and monoblocks, laptops and tablets, servers. Then the products of the ICL Group will occupy at least 10% of the Russian market of computing equipment.
and within three years to increase macedonia whatsapp number database production to a million. In this case, the company will occupy 9% of the domestic market for boards and partially replace imports. "The new production covers the group's growing needs for motherboards for computer equipment," commented Roman Petrutsa, Director of the Industrial Development Fund (IDF). Before this, ICL purchased motherboards developed by its own design engineers and system engineers from contract manufacturers.
Independent expert of IT and telecom markets Vadim Plesskiy believes that ICL's forecasts are overly optimistic. "Nobody knows what the Russian PC and server market will look like in three years, how many finished devices will be sold," explains Vadim Plesskiy. "The limiting factor is the supply of processors. There is no point in expecting Russian processors in the next three years, and Intel and AMD can find a way to limit supplies to Russia, block parallel import channels. In this case, corporate users will start using existing equipment, and supplies of new PCs will stop." He added that companies that establish production of processors and other key components in countries friendly to Russia, such as China, may gain advantages. However, it is unknown whether Chinese companies will move closer to Russia - the risk of falling under sanctions from the US and Europe is high.
The ICL Group plans to enter the commercial market: "We plan to produce for third-party customers, if there are orders. There are no customers yet," explained Ildar Vagizov, commercial director of ICL Techno, in a conversation with a ComNews correspondent.
Ildar Vagizov said that the quality of products, in particular computers, is growing. "Two years ago, the number of requests for defective products was 1-2%, and last year it was already 0.8%. At the same time, we spend 0.5% of the cost of the product on service," explained the commercial director of ICL. "We have a strict rejection system: after all the equipment is tested, each computer is opened and the quality of assembly is checked. Then the employees of the quality control department are involved, they come to the warehouse and check the devices selectively. We are quite progressive and try to minimize the output of low-quality products."
The project has been invested in 2 billion rubles, 663 million rubles of which were invested by the FRP. Freedom Global Finance analyst Vladimir Chernov told ComNews that the investment volume is sufficient - it will be enough to cover the demand for microchips and start producing microchips for other companies. "If necessary, the FRP could have allocated larger concessional financing funds, up to 5 billion rubles, but this was not necessary, since the initial investment of 2 billion rubles was enough for now," Vladimir Chernov believes.
80 jobs were created in the motherboard production, and ICL will expand this to 400.
The opening of the plant was attended by the head of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov. "Today is a significant event. A new plant has appeared on this site, which produces boards - 300 thousand so far, we expect a million. This project is to ensure the independence of our country in the field of IT," said Rustam Minnikhanov.
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Vasily Shpak was also at the ceremony. He noted that the opening of the plant is important for the development of the electronics industry: "On behalf of myself and the ministry, I wish to grow not only in pieces from 300 thousand to 1 million, and then to 1.5 million, but also in the number of technological conversions; to go deeper, expanding the technological chain, increasing added value and efficiency; to create more jobs and produce high-quality products."
and within three years to increase macedonia whatsapp number database production to a million. In this case, the company will occupy 9% of the domestic market for boards and partially replace imports. "The new production covers the group's growing needs for motherboards for computer equipment," commented Roman Petrutsa, Director of the Industrial Development Fund (IDF). Before this, ICL purchased motherboards developed by its own design engineers and system engineers from contract manufacturers.
Independent expert of IT and telecom markets Vadim Plesskiy believes that ICL's forecasts are overly optimistic. "Nobody knows what the Russian PC and server market will look like in three years, how many finished devices will be sold," explains Vadim Plesskiy. "The limiting factor is the supply of processors. There is no point in expecting Russian processors in the next three years, and Intel and AMD can find a way to limit supplies to Russia, block parallel import channels. In this case, corporate users will start using existing equipment, and supplies of new PCs will stop." He added that companies that establish production of processors and other key components in countries friendly to Russia, such as China, may gain advantages. However, it is unknown whether Chinese companies will move closer to Russia - the risk of falling under sanctions from the US and Europe is high.
The ICL Group plans to enter the commercial market: "We plan to produce for third-party customers, if there are orders. There are no customers yet," explained Ildar Vagizov, commercial director of ICL Techno, in a conversation with a ComNews correspondent.
Ildar Vagizov said that the quality of products, in particular computers, is growing. "Two years ago, the number of requests for defective products was 1-2%, and last year it was already 0.8%. At the same time, we spend 0.5% of the cost of the product on service," explained the commercial director of ICL. "We have a strict rejection system: after all the equipment is tested, each computer is opened and the quality of assembly is checked. Then the employees of the quality control department are involved, they come to the warehouse and check the devices selectively. We are quite progressive and try to minimize the output of low-quality products."
The project has been invested in 2 billion rubles, 663 million rubles of which were invested by the FRP. Freedom Global Finance analyst Vladimir Chernov told ComNews that the investment volume is sufficient - it will be enough to cover the demand for microchips and start producing microchips for other companies. "If necessary, the FRP could have allocated larger concessional financing funds, up to 5 billion rubles, but this was not necessary, since the initial investment of 2 billion rubles was enough for now," Vladimir Chernov believes.
80 jobs were created in the motherboard production, and ICL will expand this to 400.
The opening of the plant was attended by the head of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov. "Today is a significant event. A new plant has appeared on this site, which produces boards - 300 thousand so far, we expect a million. This project is to ensure the independence of our country in the field of IT," said Rustam Minnikhanov.
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Vasily Shpak was also at the ceremony. He noted that the opening of the plant is important for the development of the electronics industry: "On behalf of myself and the ministry, I wish to grow not only in pieces from 300 thousand to 1 million, and then to 1.5 million, but also in the number of technological conversions; to go deeper, expanding the technological chain, increasing added value and efficiency; to create more jobs and produce high-quality products."