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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, Informative) by bob_super on Monday June 23 2014, @09:12AM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday June 23 2014, @09:12AM (#58923)

    > Switching from X86 to Arm offers no improvement with regard to security

    A lot of US military gear has ARM chips in it. Which means that if there are any backdoors, the NSA believes they're unbreakable by potential enemies.
    Considering their normal paranoia, that's supposed to mean that there aren't backdoors (unless the GCHQ is hiding something from the NSA).
    And yes, the NSA does get to veto which chip you're going to put in military gear.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Monday June 23 2014, @10:58PM

    by frojack (1554) on Monday June 23 2014, @10:58PM (#59162) Journal

    Yeah right.

    I distinctly remember seeing General Schwarzkopf standing in front a huge room full of computers running windows xp inside the command tents during the invasion of Kuwait.
    They got so much flak about trusting XP that by the time they invaded Iraq nobody was allowed in the tents anymore. Lot of good that did.

    A lot of gear has arm for power usage requirements only.

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