This won't be Russia's first look at making a processor for the local market, mind you: the Moscow Centre of SPARC Technologies opened its order books for desktops and servers built around native Elbrus chips in 2015 following the release of the first Elbrus chip, Elbrus 2000, in 2001. The latest design, Elbrus-16S, was unveiled in 2019 as a 16-core part running at 2GHz on a 16nm process – putting it at an equal clock speed to the planned RISC-V chips with twice the cores to boot.
The news comes as China becomes increasingly focused on RISC-V, most recently supporting work on a high-performance processor family dubbed XiangShan, or "Fragrant Hills", alongside a separate effort to build 2,000 RISC-V-powered laptops by the end of 2022 – three years ahead of the admittedly larger-scale Russian project's schedule.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/15/yadro_riscv/
Kiina ja Venäjä aikovat tosissaan päästä irti amerikan prosessorivallasta. Tämä on hyvä uutinen suomalaisille sille se voi pidemmän päälle tarkoittaa sitä, että suomalaiset eivät enää joudu maksamaan kiskurihintoja prosessoreista vaan saamme ne laadukkaalla ja edullisella kiina hinnoittelulla.
https://www.vedomosti.ru/technology/articles/2021/07/14/878092-rosteh-razrabotaet-protsessori
Syntacore already develops its own core with the RISC-V architecture, rather than licensing a design. There have been questions as to whether any current RISC-V design is powerful enough to be used in a day-to-day work machine suitable for administrative services, however with the recent news that Canonical is enabling Ubuntu/Linux on some of SiFive’s RISC-V designs, chances are that by 2025 there will be a sufficient number of software options to choose from should the Russian processor adhere to any specifications required. That being said, it is not uncommon for non-standard processors in places like Russia or China to use older customized forks of Linux to suit the needs of the businesses using the hardware. Sintakor’s documentation states that their highest performance 64-bit core already supports Linux.
Kiina ja Venäjä ovat vielä pahasti jäljessä mutta ainakin yritystä on. Venäjällä on useita omia prosessoriarkkitehtuureja ja pidemmän päälle voi olla mahdollista, että niistä tulee ainakin jollain lailla kilpailukykyisiä prosessoreja. Nythän näitä käytetään lähinnä kohteissa, joissa tarvitaan korkeaa tietoturvallisuutta, koska niissä ei ainakaan pitäisi olla amerikkalaisia takaportteja.
https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-elbrus-2-a-soviet-era-high-performance-computer/
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