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MOSCOW, December 23 The first thousand Troika cards with a domestic chip have been manufactured and handed over for testing in the metro, the production of Troikas has now become 100% Russian , Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on his Telegram channel.
“The production of the Troika card has become 100% Russian — now it does not depend on any external factors. At the Micron Security Printing plant in the Technopolis Moscow SEZ they launched the first production line of one of the key processes in the production of Troika — chip packaging <…> The first thousand “Troikas” with such a chip have already been manufactured and handed over for testing in the metro,” he wrote.
Sobyanin added that the next stage is ahead — the introduction of a completely Russian new generation chip into Troika, the memory capacity of which is three times larger than the current one. This will expand the functionality of the card. According to him, the production of cards with a new generation chip should begin next year. And since Troika has now been implemented in many regions, this will be an event for the whole country.
The mayor of the capital emphasized that the use of the technology mastered in Zelenograd is not limited to the production of transport cards. It can be used to produce Muscovite cards, foreign passports and any other documents with embedded electronic storage media.
Packaging a chip (microcircuit) into a COB module is one of the key technological operations in the production of a Troika card, which ensures contact of the chip with the antenna and also protects it from mechanical damage.
The production line, opened at the Micron Security Printing plant, includes 10 installations that carry out the full cycle of manufacturing COB modules: mounting an integrated circuit on a substrate, welding leads with aluminum wire, sealing, grinding, electrical control, cutting and sorting.
The development of a domestic transport chip began in 2019. In 2022, the Troika card was transferred to the use of domestic development. Last year, the metro received 3.7 million such cards, and in 2023 — six million.