A subsidiary of Rosatom, a nuclear energy company owned by the Russian government, is testing US PCs. Delta Computers It is based on a processor designed by Russia’s Baikal Microelectronics and a Linux distribution approved for use by state agencies.The company is reportedly trying to replace Western-designed PCs with domestic ones 3D newsBut there may be obstacles in their way.
Delta Computers beaver is a small form factor PC running Baikal Electronics’ Baikal-M1 (BE-M1000) chip and Astra Linux Special Edition operating system. Beaver can be equipped with up to 64GB of DDR4 memory and up to 16TB of HDD and SSD storage. The machine has multiple USB Type-A 2.0/3.0 ports, a PS/2 connector, an RS-232 header, two Ethernet ports, an HDMI output, and two 3.5mm audio connectors for headphones and microphones. PCs can be upgraded with low profile PCIe 3.0 x8 add-in boards such as graphics cards. This system uses an LCD display, a corded keyboard, and a corded mouse.
“The parties have purchased the first batch of ‘Beaver’ home computers based on Baikal processors and are preparing to deploy them in the infrastructure of energy generator Rosenergoatom,” Rosatom said in a statement. It is written.
Delta’s Beaver is nothing special without the Baikal-M1 SoC. The Baikal-M1 packs 8 Arm Cortex-A57 cores with 8 MB of L3 cache running at 1.50 GHz, paired with 8 clusters of Arm Mali-T628 GPUs with 2 display pipelines, which is quite impressive. famous processor. SoCs using 2014-2015 technology will be made by TSMC using one of the 28nm class process technologies. However, such processors cannot be shipped from Taiwan to Russian or Belarusian entities due to restrictions imposed by the government.
Rosatom may have sourced a sample of Beaver (Bober in Russian), but with Baikal Microelectronics’ owners going bankrupt in late 2022, Delta Computers won’t get enough processors.
It’s worth noting that Delta isn’t the only Russian company developing PCs based on the Baikal M1, a processor that isn’t mass-produced. Bitblaze, a Russian brand that specializes in servers, storage systems and workstations, demoed a prototype of his Bitblaze Titan BM15 notebook last August. The company has promised to sell a laptop by the end of the year, but has yet to sell a PC. Are listed It’s marked as “in development” on the Bitblaze website.
