Russia and China have been trying very hard to develop their own domestic CPUs.
Finally, the Russian engineers have shown off their own CPU, bringing tech independence for the country.
Russias MCST (Moscow Center for SPARC Technologies) recently announced its first home-grown CPU, the quad-core Elbrus-4C.
The Elbrus-4C uses its own closed-source instruction set architecture called the Elbrus ISA.
The chip will support programs written for the x86 architecture via emulation as shown in the Product marketing documentation.
The chip has a TDP of 45W.
Each of the four cores is clocked to 800 MHz and 25 gigaflops should do an satisfactory job.
However, it doesnt match the standards of its international competitors.
Pricing of the chip currently not known.
MCST says the chips will be compatible with Linux, and Windows XP because of the x86 emulation available.
Russias MCST will definitely need few years, if not a decade, to perfect the art.
However, it will be interesting to see the development of these parts over a period of time.
source: www.techworm.net
