http://www.engadget.com/
Russia's policy on Western technology is clear: The country can live without it, especially if key issues like
economic sanctions,
NSA spying and
GPS cooperation
aren't resolved to its leader's satisfaction. It looks like this tough
stance extends to US-designed computer chips too, as a Russian business
newspaper is reporting that state departments and state-run companies
will no longer purchase PCs built around Intel or AMD processors.
Instead, starting in 2015, the government will order up to one million
devices annually based on the "Baikal" processor, which is manufactured
by a domestic company called T-Platforms. An interesting twist, however,
is that the Baikal processor is actually based on an ARM (Cortex-A57)
design, which means the East / West divorce isn't quite as complete as
it might sound. It could also mean that many Russian bureaucrats won't
get the chance to be a Mac
or a PC: they'll have to use some sort of ARM-compatible, presumably
Linux-based operating system instead.
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