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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) by present_arms on Sunday June 22 2014, @09:41PM
It is ARM they are going to use, and they have a licence to use it. To be honest the speed of the chip won't be an issue, it's going to be used for governmental use, so as long as it can run a word processor, spreadsheet and a database it doesn't really matter, hell my 600 Mhz arm in my n900 can run debian just fine with open office, so a 64 Bit 2GHz chip will fly under those conditions.
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(Score: 1) by Horse With Stripes on Sunday June 22 2014, @10:22PM
It's vaporware until it's produced in quantities.
(Score: 1) by present_arms on Sunday June 22 2014, @11:29PM
True, my point was that if they did go ahead and made said chip, it'll be powerful enough to do whatever they want with it. I had seen a story on OS NEWS where some clever man got full motion video from an Intel 8088 and a cga graphics card, and another doing the same with a commodore 64. It was more of a reply to what Hairy Feet said about it not scaling too well. I just thought that it didn't matter that much considering the plans they say they are going to use for the chip, basically office shit. but yep right now it's vaporware.
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(Score: 1) by Horse With Stripes on Monday June 23 2014, @12:03AM
Yes, it will have power to spare at 2Ghz. I wonder which Russian companies will be making the motherboards and the supporting chipsets? Surely they aren't going to build a homegrown processor and then farm out all of the supporting technology.
(Score: 1) by present_arms on Monday June 23 2014, @01:12PM
Agreed, although I think they are still friendly with China. They could just get a load of Rasberry Pi haha
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday June 23 2014, @05:30PM
"Oh yeah... raspberry pi... gotta get me some of that. Love me some raspberry pi... and a hooker too, yeah...."
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(Score: 1) by present_arms on Monday June 23 2014, @05:42PM
you forgot the beer so no deal ;) I'd forget the Pi if there was beer and hookers
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