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Russian Company Unveils Homegrown PC Chips

Posted by timothy on from the in-formerly-soviet-russia dept.

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.

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  1. about time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    About time. We can't trust the Asian chips anymore.

    At least the Ruskies have good security.

    1. Re:about time by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Funny

      Lev Andropov: It's stuck, yes?
      Watts: Back off! You don't know the components!
      Lev Andropov: [annoyed] Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!

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  2. In Soviet Russia... by MarcNicholas · · Score: 5, Funny

    ....chips overclock *you*!

  3. Isn't it about time to change this meme to... by RandomFactor · · Score: 4, Funny

    In Putin's Russia... ?

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