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TSMC delivers first batch of Baikal BE-M1000 CPUs based on ARM Cortex-A57 cores [videocardz.com]

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 [cpubenchmark.net] was a dual-core Kaby Lake [wikipedia.org] CPU launched in 2017, with a similar TDP (35 Watts).

Previously: Desktop and All-in-One Arm Linux Computers Launched with Baikal-M Processor [soylentnews.org]

Related: Russia to Build RISC-V Processors for Laptops: 8-core, 2 GHz, 12nm, 2025 [soylentnews.org]

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