Russian 'Baikal-T1' Chip Comes With Dual-Core MIPS CPU And OmniShield Support

[Guest]

Imagination announced today that the Russian company Baikal Electronics is now using the MIPS P5600 CPU in its Baikal-T1 chip for networking devices.

Russian 'Baikal-T1' Chip Comes With Dual-Core MIPS CPU And OmniShield Support : Read more

 

[SirTrollsALot]

Perhaps Russia should get out of the military maneuvers. And focus their efforts on aquiring people from around the world to make better stuff for example computer technology. But then again who wants to live in Russia, let alone invade them. I jsut dont get Russia sometimes...Its like they got 1 foot stuck in the past and their pinky finger in the present...

 

[Shankovich]

Perhaps Russia should get out of the military maneuvers. And focus their efforts on aquiring people from around the world to make better stuff for example computer technology. But then again who wants to live in Russia, let alone invade them. I jsut dont get Russia sometimes...Its like they got 1 foot stuck in the past and their pinky finger in the present...

That's because they're still the USSR. State run internet, Putin propaganda. Ask anyone who grew up in south or parts of central Europe 20 years ago. Russia is slowly going back to full Russian communism

 

[Guest]

I wonder how 'similar' this is to the Loongson.

 

[Blessedman]

This is a red herring

 

[Larry Litmanen]

Perhaps Russia should get out of the military maneuvers. And focus their efforts on aquiring people from around the world to make better stuff for example computer technology. But then again who wants to live in Russia, let alone invade them. I jsut dont get Russia sometimes...Its like they got 1 foot stuck in the past and their pinky finger in the present...

Just for the record, Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

[falchard]

Seems a little dumb. Both Intel and AMD are international companies. Heck some Intel CPUs may never see an American Engineer working on them. Dumber part is that Russian Computer Scientists tend to just take what someone else did and integrate into their systems without first looking it over. For instance those Baikal chips use a significant amount of controllers, languages, and instruction sets written by US Computer Scientists.
Its much less likely that an international company that does business in liberal countries would have government controlling elements written into it. Its also even more unlikely that these companies would voluntarily allow this as it would slow down their chips. Then its drastically more unlikely that the US can force these chip makers to do such since non-compliance is not criminal.

 

[Alexandru Voica]

I wonder how 'similar' this is to the Loongson.

Actually quite different. The company that designs Loongson has an architecture license while Baikal uses off-the-shelf MIPS CPUs.

 

[cortes_]

That's because they're still the USSR. State run internet, Putin propaganda. Ask anyone who grew up in south or parts of central Europe 20 years ago. Russia is slowly going back to full Russian communism

Specialist in Russian culture and politics? My family live in central Europe, and there is no problem. This is your government says so far about the Russian communism and totalitarian regime, and you willingly believe.

 

[stevenrix]

In a globalized world it's becoming harder not to be technology-independent. Some countries already had tried to do that in the past (Thomson CSF with their 486DX33, Cyrix and so on just to name a few of them) but their market was only public. In a market that supplies only the government, I do not remember this has previously happened, but the demand actually exists so this company might have far better chances to survive. There is a mistrust from many countries towards western nations (USA and Europe included) when it comes to technologies and chips, so it is perfectly understandable those emerging tech countries will give them a national preference. This is also what China does lately, and China is imposing higher tariffs on western companies to make business with them. The technological independence is also an exit strategy to undermine a unipolar world that is entirely westernized.

 

[stevenrix]

In a globalized world it's becoming harder not to be technology-independent. Some countries already had tried to do that in the past (Thomson CSF with their 486DX33, Cyrix and so on just to name a few of them) but their market was only public. In a market that supplies only the government, I do not remember this has previously happened, but the demand actually exists so this company might have far better chances to survive. There is a mistrust from many countries towards western nations (USA and Europe included) when it comes to technologies and chips, so it is perfectly understandable those emerging tech countries will give them a national preference. This is also what China does lately, and China is imposing higher tariffs on western companies to make business with them. The technological independence is also an exit strategy to undermine a unipolar world that is entirely westernized.

 

[stevenrix]

In a globalized world it's becoming harder not to be technology-independent. Some countries already had tried to do that in the past (Thomson CSF with their 486DX33, Cyrix and so on just to name a few of them) but their market was only public. In a market that supplies only the government, I do not remember this has previously happened, but the demand actually exists so this company might have far better chances to survive. There is a mistrust from many countries towards western nations (USA and Europe included) when it comes to technologies and chips, so it is perfectly understandable those emerging tech countries will give them a national preference. This is also what China does lately, and China is imposing higher tariffs on western companies to make business with them. The technological independence is also an exit strategy to undermine a unipolar world that is entirely westernized.

 

[yhikum]

Russia is alive and well. They have been pushing for independence from Western economies on all fronts and it should be of no surprise that having its own technology designs helps country in such direction. Current processor is a start.

There is alot of blame on Russia these days and it may be rightfully so. However, you can observe that country is preparing for total separation from Western markets via on currency and energy fronts. Now it is time for technology to be independent.

People often forget that Russia still has very knowledgeable people working for country. Recent contest here : http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2015/icpc-2015/, shows value of programmers from at least two different universities in Russia, while west has performed poorly, considering they hold technological advantages right now.

 

[yhikum]

Seems a little dumb. Both Intel and AMD are international companies. Heck some Intel CPUs may never see an American Engineer working on them. Dumber part is that Russian Computer Scientists tend to just take what someone else did and integrate into their systems without first looking it over. For instance those Baikal chips use a significant amount of controllers, languages, and instruction sets written by US Computer Scientists.
Its much less likely that an international company that does business in liberal countries would have government controlling elements written into it. Its also even more unlikely that these companies would voluntarily allow this as it would slow down their chips. Then its drastically more unlikely that the US can force these chip makers to do such since non-compliance is not criminal.

US in relative past has not done anything against Russia, even if they had big software piracy going on. Now with Ukraine annexed, US again did not do anything. What makes you think that US will enforce any decision in future?

Also, technology is very much extended and copied all over the place. The only place where it is not done is US and Western Europe. Those are the place where technology now stagnates compared to Asia. It is ability to take some design and improve it, is what gave China and the rest of the world to play with current technology and even supersede it (recent case with Xiaomi).

 

[skipperkins]

I find it funny that Russia and China have these grandiose plans to make the own microprocessors, and they cannot even come close to the global super-powers of Taiwan and South Korea. The best part is that companies like Intel and AMD (as well as Samsung & Taiwan Semiconductor) have so many brilliant Russian and Chinese engineers and materials scientists. I can totally imagine some idiot Senior P
Party Operative banning top university graduates from leaving the country in order to advance competitiveness (both China and the USSR used to do this, China is on of the only countries in the world that requires "exit permits").