Since its establishment in 2012, Russian chip manufacturer Baikal Electronics has shipped a total of 85,000 CPU processors, which is not a lot, but it is already a big achievement for Russia.As of 2019, Baikal's total shipments reached 17,000 units. At that time, there was only one office and only 81 employees.
Today, Baikal’s shipments have increased to five times its original size and expanded toFour offices, 200 employees.
Although Baikal experienced bankruptcy in 2023 due to sanctions, he survived it.
What does 85,000 pills mean?
For comparison, in 2024, 262.7 million PC processors (including Intel/AMD/Apple/Qualcomm), 144 million tablet processors (including Apple/Qualcomm/MediaTek/Unisoc/Samsung/Huawei), and 1.239 billion mobile phone processors were shipped worldwide.
These processors from Baikal come in three different models:
Baikal-T: For embedded and communication applications, 28nm process, MIPS P5600 architecture, 32-bit dual-core, main frequency 1.2GHz, power consumption 5W.
Baikal-M: For PC client applications, 28nm process, eight A57 GPU cores, main frequency 1.5GHz, L3 cache 8MB, eight Mali-T628 GPU, power consumption 35W.
Baikal-S: For server applications, N16FFC 16nm process, 48 A75 cores, main frequency 2.5GHz, six 72-bit DDR4 memory channels.
in,Baikal-T accounts for the vast majority, and all processors shipped were manufactured in 2022. Because they were sanctioned by the United States after that, TSMC can no longer manufacture for them.
It’s hard to say how far Baikal can go in the future, because it is already a source of water. They once smuggled a batch of Baikal-T1 from TSMC via Latvia and Belarus, butAs many as 150,000 Baikal-M pills were confiscated and orders for 15,000 Baikal-S pills were cancelled.
