#Russia CPU vendor Baikal declared bankruptcy, assets to be auctioned and estimated worth only $5m
> The technology being auctioned is outdated, to say the least. The Baikal-M1 processor, for instance, is based on eight outdated Arm Cortex-A57 cores operating at 1.50 GHz and outfitted with an 8MB L3 cache that is accompanied by an eight-cluster Arm Mali-T628 GPU with two display pipelines. TSMC made the SoC on its 28nm fabrication process. Meanwhile, Baikal's 48-core Baikal-S SoC for servers has never entered mass production. Since both processors are now obsolete, Baikal's assets have been valued at 484 million rubles ($5 million). The auction is scheduled for September 26, 2023.
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It will be interesting to see if they get anything like $5 million (or anything at all).
The intellectual property is outdated, there is no production facility within Russia and one assumes that sanctions would impede the import of manufacturing equipment. 🤨
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I’m also pretty confident they moved as many assets out of the company when they realised it’s not going to work. In terms of IP, it’s an ARM design so I’m not sure how much own know-how they had to add outside of the licensed designs.
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I’ve also checked their closest competitor Elbrus and since they released Elbrus-8SV benchmark demonstrated it can “fairly” run 10 years old games but too old for anything newer. They also lost a bid with Sberbank due to failed specifications. Then they announced a new Elbrus-16C which generated some hype, start of manufacturing was declared on October 2021… and that’s the last time they published any news.
