Industry Findings: Sanctions and the state’s import-substitution drive have substantially reshaped memory supply dynamics and procurement risk models. After broad export controls and sanctions accelerated in Mar-2022, government programmes and fiscal measures pushed import substitution and local sourcing priorities across strategic sectors. Procurement teams now weigh domestic availability and certified alternative suppliers more heavily than before, driving a two-track strategy that combines admitted imports where permitted with accelerated certification of local or third-country memory sources to sustain AI deployments. The net effect tightened short-term supply options while prompting system architects to design for multiple memory sourcing paths.
Industry Player Insights: Market playres influencing Russia include Micron Technology, SK hynix, Samsung Electronics, and ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) etc. Global manufacturers curtailed certain supplies in 2022–2023, prompting integrators to seek alternatives; in response, CXMT announced capacity and product expansions in 2024 to serve regional demand and to accelerate domestic DRAM and LPDDR availability. Meanwhile, Micron and other major vendors updated export and distribution policies in Mar-2022 that changed routing and qualification timelines for Russian buyers. These vendor actions reshaped sourcing strategies and increased the emphasis on validated local qualification to keep critical AI projects on schedule.