Russia Wants To Replace US Computer Chips With Local Processors

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."

Re:It will be interesting to see how good these ch

[PolygamousRanchKid]

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.

Re:Good luck with that

[Froggels]

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.