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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 23 2014, @07:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 23 2014, @07:29AM (#58900)

    You're now going to be sending your data to your own country as opposed to someone else. That is being in a better position in some regards.

    And worse in some other places. Many people in the world should worry a lot more about their own government than some other country's government*. Some random person who stays in Russia and never goes to the USA is unlikely to have as much to fear personally from the NSA/CIA/etc than from the Russian FSB. Similar for some random person in China.

    * While it is true that everyone should be concerned about the governments of countries that have a large number of nukes - that danger isn't a "personal thing". They're not going to nuke you and your country just because of your "actual tax position" or your stash of illegal drugs/weapons/porn/movies, seditious materials. But these might cause you problems with your own government.