Recently, T-Platforms, a well-known Russian supercomputer and CPU design company, was ordered by the court to return the official subsidy of 2.76 billion rubles and imposed a fine of 500 million rubles.
Figure: Baikal-S processors manufactured by TSMC
Chip Master recently reported that Russia's self-developed 48-core CPU is lit and supports dual architecture, and Baikal Electronics, which launched this self-developed CPU in the article, is a subsidiary of T-Platforms responsible for CPU design.
According to the reason, the development of a CPU with performance similar to Huawei Kunpeng 920 is a rare achievement for Russia to be a "small transparent" chip industry, and in recent years, the official subsidy chip research and development of most countries is basically equal to "white to give", in contrast, the way the fighting nation is handled is so hardcore!
It is reported that in order not to be constrained in the field of civil and scientific research, Russia in recent years is vigorously strengthening the research and development of domestic processors, Russia has a number of institutions / companies are developing their own CPU, the most famous of which is the protagonist of this article T-Platforms under baikal Electronics.
Figure: Baikal-S processor
Since 2016, the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade has begun to provide the company with a number of high subsidies, accounting for 1/3 or even more than 1/2 of the support project expenditure, but the company's research and development progress is not as expected, it should have been completed on November 30, 2019, but the schedule and chip performance are not up to the requirements.
The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade took T-Platform to court, and after the court ruled that T-Platform lost the case, it not only returned 2.76 billion rubles of subsidies, but also imposed a fine of 500 million rubles, totaling 3.26 billion, or about 280 million yuan.
At this point, many netizens have suggested that China "introduce the advanced experience of Big Brother"! So, is this T-Platforms company suspected of "cheating" "deserved"?
Figure: T-Platforms completed a supercomputing project
Founded in 2002, T-Platforms is one of Russia's largest supercomputing manufacturers and was listed on the "Export Restriction List" by the U.S. Department of Commerce as early as 2013, citing T-Platforms' supercomputers for their involvement in nuclear research.
At the same time, the supercomputer it manufactures once ranked 18th in the world and 3rd in Europe, and even exported a supercomputer to a university in the United States. It can be seen that in the field of supercomputing, it is by no means an unknown person.
However, in the field of civilian consumer CPU, T-Platforms' CPU products have gone through a similar road similar to the domestic Loongson Zhongke from MIPS architecture to Arm architecture, although it belongs to a small number of products that can be taken, but has not made a big breakthrough. At the same time, compared with China, on the one hand, Russia's domestic chip design is insufficient, enterprises lack sufficient market space and R & D investment, and the gap between software manufacturers and development ecology is more obvious.
For various reasons, even back to the Soviet era, Russia has not been able to match the status of a big country in the field of chips.