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Russia Plans to Dump Some American CPUs for Homegrown Technology

posted by janrinok on Sunday June 22 2014, @07:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the chipski dept.

gewg_ writes:

Announced shortly after the 1 year anniversary of the first revelations by Eric Snowden that American spy agencies have their fingers in everything, the Russian government will be funding a project to build a custom microprocessor. Codenamed Baikal (after the lake with Earth's largest volume of fresh water), it will be built around an ARM Cortex A57, a 64-bit architecture running at 2GHz. No core count or other details are available. First deliveries are expected in 2015.

The ARM architecture aligns with Vladimir Putin's goal, announced in 2010, to move all government computers onto Linux. It also comes in the wake of another large country's recent barring of some American technology in favor of a homegrown Linux distro.

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Lagg on Sunday June 22 2014, @09:13PM

    by Lagg (105) on Sunday June 22 2014, @09:13PM (#58794) Homepage Journal

    Phew, a realistic take on this. Even from an AC (but I bet you're registered here and just don't want the karma loss. Don't blame you). Yeah this is one of those silly saber rattling situations and Putin as usual thinking he has a pedestal to stand on and taking advantage of the current disgust towards the US government. Which is hilarious coming from the head of the Russian government. They might as well also grow PCB materials for fear that there might be an evil 'murikan bug in it too. Granted and despite it being way behind, russia did have its own PCs (for some value of "its own") and a fledgling indie video game/homebrew community that were mildly successful for a while even before the internet. So who knows. Maybe we'll get some designs that let us build our own 120MHz machines out of some breadboard and IDE wires. These are russians after all. They were pretty good with that kind of hacking.

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