Russia Wants To Replace US Computer Chips With Local Processors

Posted by timothy on Friday June 20, 2014 @10:33PM from the domestic-production dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this news from Tass: Russia's Industry and Trade Ministry plans to replace U.S. microchips (Intel and AMD), used in government's computers, with domestically-produced micro Baikal processors in a project worth dozens of millions of dollars, business daily Kommersant reported Thursday. The article is fairly thin, but does add a bit more detail: "The Baikal micro processor will be designed by a unit of T-Platforms, a producer of supercomputers, next year, with support from state defense conglomerate Rostec and co-financing by state-run technological giant Rosnano. The first products will be Baikal M and M/S chips, designed on the basis of 64-bit nucleus Cortex A-57 made by UK company ARM, with frequency of 2 gigahertz for personal computers and micro servers."

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Re:It will be interesting to see how good these ch by PolygamousRanchKid+ · 2014-06-20 23:50 · Score: 5, Funny

I fail to see the reliability advantage of the Soyuz.
The Soyuz can still take you into space. The Space Shuttle can't.
That's infinitely more reliable.

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Re:Good luck with that by Froggels · 2014-06-21 00:32 · Score: 5, Funny

their entire economy revolves around selling things they can find on the ground.

We are so much better because our economy revolves around moving money between accounts.