Russian-made quad-core CPU "Elbrus-4C" began selling for general purpose

Speaking of the CPU that is the brain of computers, manufacturers such as Intel and AMD are well known, but in RussiaMSCT (Moscow Center for SPARC Technologies)Company developed a quad-core CPU and started selling it for personal PC and server applications.

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MSCT "Elbrus-4CThe proprietary CPU called "Intel" and "AMD" has a different architecture, its contents areTrans metaDevelopedCrusoeIt is similar to things. Elbrus-4C is an x86 compatible processor with a 65 nm process quad core. Furthermore, the clock frequency is 800 MHz and it seems that every specification is completely a product of the past level. The computing power is also 25 GFLOPS, which is about half the performance of other companies' latest quad-core processors, but the number of transistors installed is about 986 million, why this is not so much a level It is a mysterious place. For this reason, Elbrus-4C chasing after several years of Intel and AMD is spec, but it seems to be a difficult processor to compare directly.


The following graph compares the performance of past CPUs. MSCT's Elbrus (2011 · red) and R1000 (2010 · green) showed comparable performance compared with ATOM D 510 (2010 · yellow) and Pentium M (around 2008 blue) It seems that it seems better to keep it to the extent that you know what processors are comparable to processors of any era, because the comparison object is too old.


MSCT also uses the company's CPU "Elbrus ARM-401It says that it sells a PC called "PC." I have installed a Linux distribution called "Elbrus", and it seems to be compatible with operating systems that support x86 processors such as Windows XP.


In Russia and China, development of CPU that does not depend on American technology like Intel or AMD is under way. Developed in China, April 2015 supercomputer with the world's fastest title at the present moment "Tianhe No. 2"Uses Intel's CPU, but on the other handChinese Academy of SciencesThe development of a super computer using the CPU "Longong" developed by the company is under way. Even in Russia, we plan to complete development of supercomputer and complete it by 2020. However, it is not known whether to use Elbrus.