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TSMC delivers first batch of Baikal BE-M1000 CPUs based on ARM Cortex-A57 cores
Baikal Electronics confirms they received the first batch of 5000 BE-M1000 CPUs from their foundry, TSMC. These are second-generation processors based on ARM architecture.
[...] Baikal BE-M1000 is based on eight ARM Cortex A57 cores all clocked up to 1.5 GHz at TDP at 30-35W. The CPU has 4MB of L2 cache and 8MB of L3 cache. It comes with an integrated ARM Mali-T682 GPU clocked at 700 to 750 MHz.
The processor offers a performance level of Intel Core i3-7300T, which should be good enough for standard office use.
The Intel Core i3-7300T was a dual-core Kaby Lake CPU launched in 2017, with a similar TDP (35 Watts).
Previously: Desktop and All-in-One Arm Linux Computers Launched with Baikal-M Processor
Related: Russia to Build RISC-V Processors for Laptops: 8-core, 2 GHz, 12nm, 2025
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 18 2021, @01:12AM (3 children)
After the sanctions on huawei, I'd be surprised if the next major gen of this is still arm based. And, I kind of hope it is not. If the Chinese state puts its support behind an alternative, we might end up with a risc-v or other open ISA with reasonable performance (and reasonable power consumption [looking at you power9]). And, it might end up in products for export, eventually. Bonus points if it doesn't include an intel ME / amd PSP work-alike. Bonus bonus points if any drivers for devices in the SoC are mainlined / and boards using it have mainline uboot support (or, at least, a free and open bootloader).
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday October 18 2021, @02:30AM
I think stealing the latest ARM designs is also an option on the table. The bigger problem is that China and Russia need to have their own advanced fabs, and possibly their own EUV or beyond-EUV equipment.
If you look at the related story, you can see that there's a plan for 8-core RISC-V chips from some different companies, but they won't materialize until at least 2025.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Monday October 18 2021, @07:46AM (1 child)
Someone posted the roadmap in the comments. The Baikal-M2 is planned to use a "6nm" node, with 8x Cortex-A710 cores at 3 GHz.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19 2021, @09:22PM
6nm hand-soldered by the children of the political opposition.