Seems clear that Russian CPU is targeted towards the Russian defense industry, where all that NIH and secrecy can arguably be leveraged into national security as its a less cost-sensitive application.
The M1 is a CPU for global consumer products.
The M1 is a CPU for global consumer products.
This is by far the most charitable characterization of this monetization scheme I've seen so far. Some would argue this is actually in place to ensure that purchases go directly through Apple each time (i.e. a one-to-one of customers to hardware purchases), rather than through a cloud provider who may purchase hardware once and allow thousands of customers to access it. c.f. Apple's restrictions on subletting use for no less than a single day per "machine".