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Russian Company Unveils Homegrown PC Chips
Reader WheatGrass shares the news from Russia Insider that MCST, Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies, has begun taking orders for Russian-made computer chips, though at least one expert quoted warns that the technology lags five years behind that of western companies; that sounds about right, in that the chips are described as "comparable with Intel Corp’s Core i3 and Intel Core i5 processors." Also from the article: Besides the chips, MCST unveiled a new PC, the Elbrus ARM-401 which is powered by the Elbrus-4C chip and runs its own Linux-based Elbrus operating system. MCST said that other operating systems, including Microsoft’s Windows and other Linux distributions, can be installed on the Elbrus ARM-401. Finally, the company has built its own data center server rack, the Elbrus-4.4, which is powered by four Elbrus-4C microprocessors and supports up to 384GB of RAM.
About time. We can't trust the Asian chips anymore.
At least the Ruskies have good security.
....chips overclock *you*!
Most (sane) people have already. I think still using Facebook tells a lot about you, none of it positive.
Yeah, it says you share pictures of your vacations with friends and family. What idiot would do that?
We've started developing our own processors too, but since they're made of wood they tend to ignite past 400MHz.
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In Putin's Russia... ?
--- Mercutio was right.