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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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If your life was a horse, you'd have to shoot it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 23 2014, @03:58AM
The work you see here is all done by volunteers
My single-word subject line and the rest appears more harsh than my actual feelings.
I use really nasty words when I'm truly upset.
I was a bit disturbed when my first story submissions were edited
The thing I objected to most, I didn't mention:
the addition of "some" to the title.
The Russian gov't (like the Chinese gov't) appears to want American technology out of the loop, so that was blunted.
...and, of course, I always assume that my own work is flawless. :roll:
-- gewg_