[Hardware]Russia presents its 1st Baikal CPU

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Baikal Electronics, the Russian chip designer, has just presented its first processor, the Baikal-T1, according to CPU World. The firm announced last year that it was working on an ARM processor using a Cortex A57 core (cf. "Russia wants its own ARM processor, the Baikal"). The chip finally uses a MIPS Warrior P5600 architecture which dates from last year and which is known to have good performance in single threading. The Russian processor will be engraved in 28 nm by TSMC and it will have a 25 mm x 25 mm package.

The chip has 2 MB of L2 cache, a DDR3 controller and a 3 to 4-line PCI-Express module. It manages USB 2.0 ports, two SATA 3.0 ports and Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. The chip would have a TDP of less than 5 W and it would be available for sale to OEMs by June 1, 2015. The firm should mainly target Russian companies working for the government and wishing to use something other than Intel or AMD processors. We also think that this is why the firm has chosen a MIPS architecture that belongs to Imagination, while Intel and AMD have shares in ARM (cf. "MIPS bought by the father of PowerVR, the patents sold to ARM"). For the record, another Russian company has also just presented a processor very similar to Transmetta's Crusoe (cf. "Elbrus-4C: a Russian processor that emulates an x86 CPU"). While relations between the United States and Russia are becoming more complicated, the latter is trying to depend less on American companies and it is far from being the first (cf. "China aims for 100 petaflops in 2015, exaflops in 2018").
https://www.tomshardware.fr/la-russie-presente-son-1er-cpu-baikal/