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honestly, what a piece of junk.

Russia has the interests of nobody on earth but itself. What it lacks in technology, and basically, general competence (who buys anything Russian except oil and weapons?), it has corresponding geopolitical calculation in abundance. Let's not let this clever operator get anywhere near our societies, because as this chip shows, its own societal structure is unable to produce competitiveness in any objective sense of the word. And that's despite having some of the most brilliant people on earth.

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It's a 2014 MIPS CPU core, why do you believe it's "junk" (unless you have prejudice against MIPS)?

I'm not sure how much Russian it is, though - given that it's CPU core is developed by UK company - doubt other stuff like Ethernet core are in-home designs as well - and the silicon is manufactured in Taiwan... Not to diminish the significant amount of engineering skills necessary to put all the stuff together, debug and test it and whatever else, but that doesn't look to be much of a domestic product to me.

There are lot of cool tech out of Russia. Check the blogs of mail.ru devs. Their tarantool database is really cool for example.

Lots of tech claims and vaporware. FTFY.

So you want to uninstall nginx from your web server today, correct?

>> who buys anything Russian except oil and weapons?

US government, businesses and individuals buy tickets to the ISS, rocket engines, exploits, botnets, mail bribes, etc :)

Other countries buy Russian nuclear reactors.

All of these are even more scary.

Looks like a completely standard chip based on open specs. What sort of "general competence" are they missing here?

It's a rather boring chip - but that's OK. Given what it costs to take a 28nm design into production, you generally do need to be conservative especially on a first go around.

this is only a guess, but i don't expect this chip to be 'competitive' -- my assumption is that they're trying to maintain domestic expertise to reduce critical reliance in imported computers. though the fact that they're licensed from the uk and manufactured abroad complicates this some.

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