According to local propagandists, the currently most sanctioned country in the world could be left without Baikal server processors. TSMC no longer signs new contracts for the production of Russian waste.

Baikal everything

• Due to the impossibility of new orders, the Russian company Baikal Electronics Baikal-S can freeze the release of server processorsPresented in late 2021.
• Interestingly, this time, no one is talking about his intention to move the chip collection to local factories, as before. In any case, even if Russia has such plans, it will not be possible to implement them quickly, because the process of going into production requires long preparations.
• It was noted that a number of large customers, including the Russian Sberbank, rely on Baykal-S’s products to meet their import substitution requirements. Without a domestic alternative, Russian companies will have to rely on parallel imports of foreign processors.

The source also points to this Even batches of Baikal-M processors already produced for computers and laptops do not come to Russia.

This was noted by those who attended the last summit of design centers: problems with access to production facilities and foreign IP make materials unreliable, and it is too risky to put such a processor in the development of new computers,
– He quotes “Kommersant”.

Meanwhile, the UK has recently imposed sanctions against Russia’s Baikal processors. In addition, restrictions were imposed on the MCST company, which produces Elbrus processors. The fact is that they use the architecture of the British company ARM. And the new sanctions include not only the freezing of foreign assets of ICST and Baykal Electronics, but also restrictions on their use of technology, including ARM architecture. This should stop the release of new processors. No major foreign chip manufacturer, UMC, Global Foundries or TSMC will agree to work without Baykal Electronics.

A Kommersant interlocutor who published the material suggested that Russia might seek a factory that would violate ARM’s patent law or would have to transfer its developments to open processor architectures such as RISK V, MIPS, VLIW. This will require a redesign of the entire processor and will take two or three years and up to 1 billion rubles.