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Title    Russia Plans to Dump Some American CPUs for Homegrown Technology
Date    Sunday June 22 2014, @07:35PM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the chipski dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/06/22/0658214

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.

Links

  1. "Russian government will be funding a project to build a custom microprocessor" - http://hothardware.com/News/Russia-Industry-And-Trade-Ministry-To-Replace-Untrusted-Intel-And-AMD-Processors-With-Their-Own-ARM-Designs/#ContentBody
  2. "another large country's recent barring of some American technology" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/05/20/1334200&tid=11

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