The Federal State Unitary enterprise was set up under the guidance of professor and doctor of technical sci-ences V. A. Presnov in 1964. Since then it has become one of the leading enterprises of the electronic industry in Russia which has mastered the gallium arsenide technology from A to Z. Research into materials technology and development of methods of producing epitaxial structures with complex doping profiles have allowed elaborating and manufacturing various discrete devices and integrated circuits based on gallium arsenide.

Both in Russia and abroad the enterprise has been recognized as a leader in such areas of electronic engineering as the Gunn diodes, varicaps, mixer and detector diodes, monolithic mixers and detectors of the millimeter-wave band, light-emitting diodes.

Under the present day economic conditions the leaders of the enterprise have formulated the concept of its de-velopment in the production area proceeding from the maximum use of its scientific and technological reserve, and namely:
- active search for foreign partners, investors and consumers to support the most science-intensive and ex-port-profitable scientific trends;
- maximum cooperation with scientific and production spheres both in Tomsk and other Siberian cities to realize complex radioelectronic systems;
- administrative and financial support of new trends and products ensuring a minimum cycle of the turnover of financial resources.

On the whole, structural reconstruction of scientific collectives has been completed and autonomous complexes capable of producing competitive goods have been established. These are:
- a specialized design and technology office of microelectronics, its tasks being development of GaAs- and hybrid-integrated circuits, functionally completed radioelectronic products using the above IC and HIC as well as special facilities;
- a complex of microwave electronics with the purpose of developing and manufacturing microwave semiconductor devices, sensors and goods based on them;
- a complex of materials technology and illumination engineering with the purpose of developing a technol-ogy to produce new semiconductor materials based on GaAs and Si as well as illumination facilities and solar transformers based on them;
- a department of medical electronics with the purpose of developing medical devices in the area of light-, photo- and magnetic therapy, EHF and low frequency therapy;
- a complex of structural materials aimed at developing goods based on them;
- a department of X-ray sensors.

The enterprise has specialized services which carry out important functions of its technological mechanism. They are a gas producing station, a power service division, design and technology departments, a toolmaker's shop, a laboratory of physicochemical research, a model and experimental shop, a central test station, a special machine build-ing shop, departments of photo masks and electron-beam lithography. In addition to carrying out its functional duties, each of the above divisions ensures realization of services and goods.

The specialized microelectronics design and technology office has developed functionally complete systems of double application including the field of communication, radioelectronic protection, registration, and processing the results of super-high-speed processes.

The independent sensor department carries out the development of X-ray quantum-sensitive detectors.The following projects have been developed in the above trends:
- hybrid-monolithic technology of constructing microwave devices for radiorelay communication lines;
- the technology of producing specialized super-high-speed integrated circuits for goods of double applica-tion;
- GaAs- technology of manufacturing a number of functional facilities for transmitter-receiver systems;
- radiorelay communication lines;
- GaAs-based detectors of ionizing radiation.

One of the most promising trends is the use of the existing scientific and technological reserve in the area of science of materials. Related to the above trend are four projects that are in their realization stage:
- development of growth equipment and production of silicon and gallium arsenide to manufacture solar cells;
- development and production of alternative power sources based on solar energy for small-scale consum-ers;
- development of high-efficiency optoelectronic and illuminating engineering products on the basis of semi-conductor emitters;
- industrial engineering of semiconductor traffic lights.

In order to keep up and develop the trend of elaboration and batch production of microwave discrete elements (oscillator, mixer, multiplier and tuning diodes), an additional task has been set to construct functionally complete mi-crowave modules for super-high-speed communication systems, radiometry, various detectors of pressure, temperature, flow rate and acceleration. The enterprise is carrying out three projects related to the above trend:
- development and production of high-speed confidential communication channels in the millimeter-wave band;
- development and production of radiolocation motorcar systems of the millimeter-wave band for measur-ing the dynamic characteristics of moving objects;
- development and production of detectors for various branches of national economy.

The scientific and technological reserve in structural materials for discrete elements has allowed the enterprise to start a new trend aimed at developing and producing functionally complete consumer goods. There are two projects related to the above trend:
- production of water purification filters "Kapelka";
- development and production of small-size water-treatment stations.

The specialists' experience in constructing devices operating in the microwave band, infrared and optical spec-tra as well as the existing reserve in the field of medical electronics have made it possible to start an independent trend of development and batch production of goods widely used in medicine.

The enterprise is carrying out three projects related to the above trend:
- increasing the nomenclature of self-contained electric stimulators of gastrointestinal tract;
- increasing the nomenclature of phototherapeutic devices;
- batch production of devices for EHF therapy.

The gas producing station has made it possible to considerably increase the realization of gases, so nowadays the enterprise is one of the leading suppliers of oxygen in Tomsk region. Bottling of drinking water had been started on the basis of the deionized water treatment station.