I was doubting your comment, but after looking into it seems like all the Russian sources claim it to be around 200,000 rubles.
Does anyone have any idea why an average consumer, would even consider buying this at this price?
Does anyone have any idea why an average consumer, would even consider buying this at this price?
Because we are will be open-sourced soon and in russia there is there own smartphones (but build in china yes) we can try to provide most secure solution in market.
May be some countries like Germany are interested in such things.
I can imagine that quite a few companies outside the US are going to build some of their core IT around this CPU. The CPU price is quite low if you consider what the data is worth.
For people that want to swap KGB surveillance over NSA's.
FTFY
Say you're in the west. NSA has backdoors into your US-designed hardware and your US-designed OS. NSA also, probably, has access to your ISP's routers and US net/web corporations like Google. As a result, NSA may hide C&C channels where KGB use of a backdoor to your hardware would still show detectable illegitimate network traffic.
Lower risk of detection translates to higher probability of use.