almost 1 year ago the Russian company Baikal electronics presented its ARM-based processor with 48 cores and a TDP of 120W. Since then little we have heard of these processors beyond leaving Russia without supplies from TSMC, which would make it difficult to manufacture this processor. almost a year later have been featured on Flickr images of this Baikal-S 1000 in detail that the user @locuza has commented on Twitter.
In the gallery uploaded to Flickr there are photos of all kinds, some with IHS removed and others that show the structure of this Russian processor. In the images that show its internal structure you can see the different clusters of the ARM-based cores, PCIe 4.0 controllers and 6 channels of 72-bit DDR4 3200MHz memory. You can also see a cache that connects the clusters to the cores and a homegrown kernel based on RISC-V that takes care of secure boot.
Recall that Russia presented this processor as a equivalent to Intel Xeon Gold 6148 or AMD EPYC 7351 CPUs. Built with a 16nm node, 48-core design, and speeds up to 2.5GHz, this processor is a good candidate for satisfy the demand for CPUs for national servers without depending on other countries. But after the veto of the companies to the country It is not known if other more advanced versions of this Baikal-S server processor will be released.
We leave you with some photos.
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Juan Antonio Soto
I am a Computer Engineer and my specialty is automation and robotics. My passion for hardware began at the age of 14 when I gutted my first computer: a 386 DX 40 with 4MB of RAM and a 210MB hard drive. I continue to give free rein to my passion in the technical articles that I write in Geeknetic. I spend most of my free time playing video games, contemporary and retro, on the more than 20 consoles I have, in addition to the PC.
