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发帖数: 1034 | 1 By Matthew Humphries Jun. 24, 2014 8:28 am
ARM
Intel and AMD have lost out big time this week in the form of around $1.3
billion in new PC and server sales every year. The reason? The Russian
government has decided it no longer wants US microchips inside its hardware.
Russia purchases roughly 700,000 new PCs every year and 300,000 new servers.
They are split across government departments and state-run companies/
organizations. This decision by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade
means that from now on new hardware for the state will run the locally
produced Baikai processors, which use an ARM 64-bit Cortex A-57 architecture
. That’s great news for UK company ARM, but even better news for Russian
company T-Platforms who produces the Baikai range of chips.
The move to ARM is made easier by the fact Russia decided back in 2010 to
adopt Linux as its national operating system. If departments were currently
reliant on Windows this would be a much more difficult transition. No
definitive reason has been given yet for the decision to move away from
Intel and AMD, but Russia isn’t exactly on great terms with the US right
now, and the NSA spying debacle surely also had something to do with this
move. At least with locally-produced processors the government can ensure
the chips are clean.
Running Linux on ARM chips certainly offers Russia’s government more
protection against spying and malware by default, but I doubt it will stop
them spending thousands of dollars on purchasing typewriters. And I’m sure
other governments around the world will watch this transition with interest.
If running Linux on ARM chips works at a large scale, the combination could
be adopted by other countries in the near future. |
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