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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: 1) by present_arms on Sunday June 22 2014, @11:29PM

    by present_arms (4392) on Sunday June 22 2014, @11:29PM (#58820) Homepage Journal

    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

    by Horse With Stripes (577) on Monday June 23 2014, @12:03AM (#58823)

    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.

    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

      by present_arms (4392) on Monday June 23 2014, @01:12PM (#58979) Homepage Journal

      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

        by Gaaark (41) on Monday June 23 2014, @05:30PM (#59088) Journal

        "Oh yeah... raspberry pi... gotta get me some of that. Love me some raspberry pi... and a hooker too, yeah...."
        ---Jason Biggs.

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