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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In Soviet Russia by wonkey_monkey · 2014-06-20 23:05 · Score: -1, Troll

In Soviet Russia, lame, done-to-death jokes repeat you.

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Re:Good luck with that by c6gunner · 2014-06-21 01:33 · Score: -1, Troll

Mainly because their Hard Drives are based on LEG.
Seriously, can you imagine the features a Russian CPU will have? "Survives drop fro orbit! Can count to Potato!"