Thursday, September 22, 2016

Rostec will release the Russian “killer” iPhone for $130 – CNews.ru


Three years on the development and production of completely domestic smartphone

“Ruselectronics”, part of state Corporation rostec, announced plans to establish the production of smartphone and tablet is completely assembled in Russia. According to the Director “Roselektronika” Igor Kozlov, the development of Russian devices is not less than three years.

According to Kozlova, the cost of a new smartphone “Rostec” in 2018 should not exceed $ 130. Previously, the Agency focused on the price of $ 200.

the Development and production of Russian mobile devices will be engaged in the enterprise, forming a part of Roselektronika”. At the Kaluga factory for Telegraph equipment (KZTA) charged with the development of design, Central research Institute “Cyclone” organizes the production of OLED-displays, a number of enterprises to produce electronic components.

According to the Director “Roselektronika”, the exact amount of the project for the production of Russian smartphone and tablet is currently being debated in the company, but within two years after the launch of the project, the holding expects to sell 10 million smartphones annually. The products will be supplied under the public procurement local doctors, police and other employees of budget organizations.

According to Rosstat, in 2014 in Russia there were 14 million workers of budgetary organizations. In 2015, the total number shipped in Russia smartphones of all brands, according to J’son &Partners Consulting, amounted to 25.3 million shares.

Not enough otechetsvennoy processor and operating system

To create and start the production of mobile devices in the domestic components of Ruselectronics currently needs two main components: your processor and your operating system. According to Kozlova in Russia until such counterparts overseas development are not created.

Now the CPU is fully the national Assembly issues the “Moscow center of SPARC technologies (MCST), however, for the mobile project “Roselektronika” processors “Elbrus/MCST created for desktop systems are not suitable, said Kozlov. Another Russian processor “Baikal electronics” is manufactured at the company’s partners in Asia. According to the representative of “Baikal electronics” Andrei Malafeev, Russia and Europe, there is no semiconductor factories is suitable for production of such chips with the norms of the technological process 28 nanometers.

the Creation of the domestic mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets engaged in the Ministry of communications, which “It” is in dialogue, according to Kozlov.

Previously, RBC reported that Russian mobile operating system can be created based on OS open-source Sailfish, which is being conducted jointly with the Finnish company Jolla. Kozlov noted that this operating system is also seen as a software platform for Russian devices.

co-Owner of Jolla shareholder is the Russian group ESN Grigory Berezkin. In June 2015, the project of creating a mobile OS, Jolla presents, “Yandex” and the group ESN, won first place in the direction of the mobile OS among the priority projects for the import substitution of domestic soft. To Finance priority projects of the Ministry of communications requested a budget of p18 billion . In February 2016, it became known that the government plans to allocate p5 billion for the creation of the Russian software and its promotion abroad.

the Company “Baikal electronics” spent on the creation of its dual-core processor Baikal-T1 of p2 billion the price of the processor Baikal-T1 in wholesale batches set at $ 60. The cost of the first personal computer with a Russian processor “Elbrus-4C” made p200 thousand cost of the project “national system of payment cards”, which is the same as Visa and MasterCard, is p2.8 billion.

Precedent YotaPhone, the Russian smartphone on imported components

Yota Devices, a 25.1% which also belongs to the Rostec, was established in 2011 and has launched two models of the smartphone: the YotaPhone and YotaPhone 2 (third generation smartphone is preparing for the announcement in 2016). In four years of operation, the company has shipped all over the world approximately 70 million of its smartphones, with the costs of development and promotion of the two models of the YotaPhone, according to media reports, amounted to $ 50 million.

the YotaPhone Smartphones based on Android operating system American company Google and are equipped with a Qualcomm processor, so this smartphone, according to Kozlova, can hardly be called domestic.

Ruselectronics is ready to use Android OS and Taiwanese or Chinese processors, recognizes the head of the holding, if within three years, Russian companies will not be able to develop a competitive domestic counterparts. In the case of production of smartphones in Russia, not in China or Taiwan, the cost could exceed $ 50 million, the Director of the Department of telecommunication services J’son &Partners Consulting Kirill Kucherov.

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