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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: 3, Interesting) by kaszz on Sunday June 22 2014, @09:27PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Sunday June 22 2014, @09:27PM (#58796) Journal

    Russia seems to have very clever people but very bad support to get their ideas into real products. Guess we just have to see what hapends. As for China, perhaps Loongson worked as a negotiation tool?

    As for the money if the Russian GDP is 2 029 812 million USD. The cost of a new fab is like 1/1000:th of the economy as a whole. I'm sure they can do something. A cheaper alternative is to design the CPU them self and then contract the fabrication to China. Upon return the chips are inspected for discrepancies. It is possible however to manipulate the layers so it looks right but ain't because some connections are or aren't properly done. Or just doped with different types of atoms.

    One aspect is that it's easy to copy. But if innovation is lacking it will be a constant playing of the catch up game.

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