The exhibition was held in the Forum pavilion taking 8000 square meters. More than 250 companies from Russia, Germany, Great Britain, China, Belgium, Canada, Latvia, Belarus, the Netherlands took part in the exhibition. The “ChipEXPO-2018” participants included Russian distributers, the leading Russian and foreign manufacturers of electronics and microelectronics, test laboratories and centers, specific universities and mass media. These included the major market players such as JSC “ElTest”, JSC “Uran”, SPA “Energy electronic” LLC, Simmetron Group, Promelektronika LLC, Radiant Group, “TESON” LLC, “Platan” LLC, JSC KBTEM-OMO, Dart holding LLC, JSC “Ruselectronics”, FSUE MNIIRIP, JSC “Micron” and JSC “NIIME”, JSC “Angstrem”, IFC “Tochka opory”, JSC ELVIS, JSC “Elekon”, JSC “Ural plant of electric connectors”, “Alpha-Komplekt ECB” LLC, “Alpha-Komplekt C” LLC, Atlant factory, Kopir factory, Karachevsky factory of electric parts, Iset factory, Alpha-Riga, Psevma LLC, JSC Integral, Alumica, Konka, etc. The “China Electronics” exposition was traditionally present at the exhibition showing the latest developments with excellent quality of the Chinese manufacturers and the most advanced types of gadgets starting with “smart home” to OEM data storage solutions. In addition, the exposition of the enterprises of the Department of radioelectronic industry of the Ministry of industry and trade of the Russian Federation was presented along with the State program “Development of electronics and radioelectronics for 2013-2026”, the exposition of the Rostec Corporation enterprises and the Anniversary exposition “Golden Chip - 2018”.
The grand opening ceremony of “ChipEXPO - 2018” was attended by: Deputy chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation - Y.I. Borisov, deputy collegium chairman of the Military and industrial committee of the Russian Federation - O.I. Bochkarev, the director of the Department of radioelectronic industry of the Ministry of industry and trade of the Russian Federation - S.V. Khokhlov , the first chairman deputy of the State Duma committee on information policy, information technology and communications - V.E. Dengin , the head of the Department of science, industrial policy and entrepreneurship of Moscow - A.A. Fursin, the project manager of the advanced radioelectronic complex of Rostec Corporation - M.I. Kritenko, the director of the project office Novy Istochnik of Rosatom - S.E. Vlasov, the director of external communications of JSC Ruselectronics - A.V. Brykin, the chairman of the board of directors of “Micron”, CEO of JSC “NIIME”, G.Y. Krasnikov Prof. Dr.-Ing., CEO of FSUE “MNIIRIP” - P.P. Kutsko and others.
The “Golden chip - 2018” contest was traditionally held during the exhibition. JSC “RSRI “Electronstandart” was second in the nomination “For achievements in ECB testing and quality control”.
