Russia gets a small number of 16nm Baikal-S processors, and Chinese OEMs have a good chance

Foreign media CNews reported that Vasily Shpak, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, said that they have successfully received a small batch of Baikal-S 16nm 48-core processors for servers and storage equipment. This batch of approximately 1,000 processors will be distributed to server developers and manufacturers. But before the news came out that Russia got more Baikal-S, which country and manufacturer made it?

Baikal Electronics, which manufactures Baikal-S processors, is the most famous processor design company in Russia. As early as about three years ago, Baikal Electronics started developing the Baikal-S processor code named “BE-S1000”. In early 2023, a Russian company launched a storage system motherboard with Baikal-S. Selection of Baikal-STSMC 16nm, the original plan was to produce 600,000 pieces in 2025, but Russia invaded Ukraine and was sanctioned by the international community, and the production plan was stopped.

The processor has 48 Arm Cortex-A75 cores, clock speed 2.0GHz, up to 2.5GHz, power consumption 120W, and support up to 768GB DDR4-3200 ECC memory. There are also five PCIe 4.0 x16 (4×4) interfaces, a USB 2.0 controller, two 1GbE interfaces, and various general I/O interfaces. It integrates and packs a processor with the same self-developed RISC-V architecture for secure boot and management Its performance is approximately the same as a 20-core Intel Xeon 6148 processor with a maximum clock speed of 2.4GHz, or AMD Ryzen 7351’s 16. -Core processor with the highest clock speed of comparable 2.9 GHz processors.

Market participants said that although the size of this batch of Baikal-S is small, it is a milestone and represents the beginning of the integration of Russia’s Baikal-S into the system. It is not yet clear where Baikal-S has been simulated.

(Original image source: Baikal Electronics)