Foreign media have noted that Russia and U.S. tech companies have often clashed over content, censorship, data, and local representation, a dispute that was further exacerbated in February 2022 after the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.

RIA Novosti quoted Judge Timur Vakhrameyev as saying that the fine is equivalent to one-tenth of Zoom’s 2022 revenues in Russia.

It’s worth noting that Zoom was fined 15 million rubles last week for failing to store Russian citizens’ data on Russian soil (Currently about RMB 1.127 million), a fine that the court said Zoom had repeatedly violated.

This is in addition to other companies such as Google, Apple, and others, which have been regularly fined large sums of money in Russia over the past few years, and Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms, which have also been disabled.

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It is found that the executive director of the Russian Data Storage System Developers Association claimed that Russian companies will purchase Loongson 5000 series processors (12nm process) with performance similar to Intel i5.

The general manager of Norsi-Trans, Сергей Овчинников, said that the company has purchased about 100 Loongson processors and will trial-produce a batch of equipment using Loongson processors.

It is reported that Norsi-Trans’s partner will be Basalt SPO (the developer of Alt OS). Alexei Smirnov, chairman of the company’s board of directors, claimed that “ALT OS is suitable for Loongson processors.”

Norsi-Trans plans to supply pre-production equipment to relevant ministries and corporate customers, with the final products listed in the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s “Register of Electronic Products”.

Experts interviewed by the newspaper believe that the switch to Loongson processors for Russian equipment is “necessary” to reduce reliance on technologies such as Intel and AMD.

“Kommersant” also pointed out that Norsi-Trans is not the only Russian electronics manufacturer planning to use Loongson processors in its products. Prombit’s “roadmap” also includes “similar plans.”

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It is said that under the leadership of the “Trusted Infrastructure Team”, Russia is trying to redefine computing capabilities, claiming to “break through the limits of computing power” with a project budget of approximately US$6 billion. However, the required costs are expected to decrease in the coming years as technology rapidly develops. It is estimated that the cost of these systems may drop to US$500-700 million by 2030.

Currently, Russia’s most powerful supercomputer is Yandex’s Chervonenkis, ranked 27th in the world for computing power. A total of 7 computers in Russia are among the top 500 in the world, 3 of which belong to Yandex.

For comparison, the United States has 150, China has 134, Germany has 36, and Japan has 33.

According to previous reports, Russian technology giant Yandex said in an interview at the beginning of last month that YandexGPT developed by the company has greater promise than ChatGPT developed by American competitor OpenAI.

Dmitry Masyuk, director of Yandex’s search and advertising technology business unit, said that YandexGPT’s performance in generating Russian content has been able to “steadily surpass” ChatGPT version 3.5, and even provides better answers than ChatGPT 4.0 in many cases. He also said that YandexGPT is in line with its U.S. It will be “just a matter of time” before rivals compete.

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According to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, the Russian State Duma (the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, which is part of Russia’s permanent legislature, similar to the Lower House of Parliament, and is responsible for drafting and enacting national laws) has purchased 1,800 copies of the national alternative to the Windows operating system and the Office suite for its members of parliament, the news was confirmed by the licensing provider Step Logic’s technical director, Stanislav Dzhanov, who said that the company would not renew the licenses. The news was confirmed by Stanislav Darchinov, technical director of license provider Step Logic.

The exact amount of the purchase is close to 52.5 million rubles (currently about RMB 3.927 million),” the report said. The solutions were fully delivered in September.”

According to the source, the State Duma purchased Astra Linux instead of Windows, and the “Moyofis” package instead of Microsoft Office. We are talking about perpetual licenses with a three-year period for receiving updates.

According to the information published on the Russian State Procurement Portal, the State Duma’s specific purchase amounted to about 52.5 million rubles. About 23.1 million rubles will be spent on 1,800 “Moyofis” licenses, and 29.3 million rubles on Astra Linux licenses. According to the tender documents, only bids from Step Logic were received.

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The Russian Luna-25 probe was scheduled to attempt a landing on the Moon on August 21, but on August 19 it collided with the Moon after an emergency situation made it “impossible to manoeuvre in accordance with the specified parameters” and deviated from its designed orbit.

Russia’s National Space Corporation (NSC) announced today that the most probable cause of the Luna-25 crash was a large number of commands sent at the same time, which resulted in the failure of one of the accelerometers of the angular velocity measurement unit to turn on, and ultimately triggered an abnormal functioning of the on-board integrated control system.

Simply put, these command data should have different priority settings so that the equipment can prioritize the execution of a certain item, the assignment of different priority commands has a certain degree of randomness, and the failure of Luna-25’s accelerometers to send out signals resulted in the onboard control system not being able to shut down the propulsion system in a time when the probe reached the predetermined speed, but rather shut down the propulsion system only after the thrusters had operated for a specified period of time.

Reflecting the actual process, the Luna-25 probe’s propulsion system changed from a circular near-lunar orbit to an elliptical landing orbit with the engines firing for 127 seconds instead of the planned 84 seconds, which ultimately led to an unintended trajectory and a collision with the Moon.

On the basis of the results of this investigation, Roskosmos will make recommendations to avoid the recurrence of such an incident in future missions.

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The investigation revealed a vulnerability in the outer surface of Soyuz MS-22, which proved that the anomaly was caused by external damage.

Borisov said that a special committee has been set up to deal with the situation of the Progress MS-21. Until the cause of the anomaly is determined, Roscosmos has decided to postpone the launch of the Soyuz MS-23 unmanned mode spacecraft until March. He stressed that the launch was postponed in order to ensure the safety of the cosmonauts’ lives and health.

According to CCTV news, Russian Prime Minister Mishuskin signed a decree on February 13 local time announcing the establishment of the Council for the Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems.

According to its charter, the Commission, as a permanent government body, will coordinate government departments and collaborate with industry in the fields of science, technology and innovation to develop and implement state policy for the development of unmanned aerial systems in Russia.

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According to Roscosmos, there will be no astronauts on board, but the Soyuz will then deliver a cargo and scientific equipment to Earth, and cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin and Anna Kikina have already prepared for the shipment.

The spacecraft will be launched on September 21, 2022, with a planned mission duration of 188 days. Its crew includes NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin.

On December 15, 2022, a “visible sheet flow” occurred in the Soyuz along with a drop in pressure in the external radiator cooling circuit. Preliminary information indicates that the accident was caused by a 0.8 mm diameter hole in the external radiator on the Soyuz MS-22 service module, and officials believe the damage may have been caused by a micrometeoroid or space debris impact.

Since Soyuz MS-22 cannot perform the crew return mission, Russia will launch Soyuz MS-23 around February 20, 2023 to rescue the crew of MS-22, which also causes the original crewed mission of MS-23 to be postponed, and Will be reassigned to MS-24 task. So Soyuz MS-22 may bring back some cargo by then.

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Borisov also said that the plan to increase the number of Russian artificial satellites in space from the current 200 to 1,000 by 2030.

There are only two space stations in operation in the world, one is the International Space Station built by the United States, Russia and six other Western space agencies, the participating national agencies are NASA, the European Space Agency, the Russian Federal Space Agency, the Canadian National Space Agency, the Japanese Space Research Agency and the Brazilian Space Agency, the other is China’s independent construction of the Chinese Tiangong space station.

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To this end, the Russian government has launched a national plan to develop a 28nm process by 2030, hoping to rely on reverse engineering foreign chips and developing local semiconductor talent.

However, due to international sanctions, U.S. and European semiconductor equipment vendors cannot supply Russia, and if Russia moves forward with the 28nm process, it will have to design and develop domestic equipment. However, companies like ASML and Applied Materials will have to spend decades developing and updating their equipment in about eight years.

However, Russia does not seem to be worried at all, as Russia’s Novgorod Strategy Development Agency (Novgorod Strategy Development) issued a bold statement, claiming that the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences will fall through everyone’s glasses and develop a lithography machine that can produce 7nm chips in 2028, which can also beat ASML’s similar products.

The deputy director of the Institute of Nanostructures of the Russian Academy of Sciences said that ASML, the global leader in lithography, has been working on EUV exposure machines for nearly 20 years, with the goal of keeping the world’s top semiconductor manufacturers extremely efficient in production. But Russia does not need it, as long as it moves forward according to Russia’s domestic needs.

Reportedly, Russia’s ideas seem to be too naive, Russia wants to develop within six years can support the feasibility of 7nm chip lithography is not high, and the fab is not a photolithography can produce chips, but also need a lot of equipment, and Russia does not produce these devices.

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Over the past years, Russia’s semiconductor industry has been very dependent on foreign technology. According to the United Nations Comtrade database, Russia imported $440 million in semiconductor equipment and $1.25 billion in chips in 2020, with related semiconductor imports coming mainly from Asian countries that do not have sanctions imposed on them.

In fact, before the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russia has been actively developing its own semiconductor industry, of which the more well-known Russian chip design manufacturer is Baikal Electronics.

Baikal Electronics had previously designed chips based on the MIPS instruction set (Baikal-T series), and in recent years, has fully shifted to the Arm architecture, including the Baikal-M, Baikal-S, and Baikal-L series, all of which are processor chips based on the Arm architecture.

In 2021, Baikal Electronics launched the Baikal-M series processors for mass production shipments.

This chip is based on TSMC 28nm process foundry, 8-core Cortex-A57 architecture, frequency up to 1.5GHz, integrated Mali-T628 MP8 GPU core, frequency 750MHz, also supports dual-channel DDR4-2400 or DDR3-1600 memory, power consumption does not exceed 35W.

According to the latest exposure, before the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in February this year, Baikal Electronics designed a new generation of 48-core processor S1000 has been completed, and in the United States and its allies on Russia before further sanctions from TSMC received a small number of S1000 chip prototypes, which also seems to surface the chip flow success.

According to the report, Baikal Electronics S1000 is a processor designed for server applications, based on TSMC 16FFC process manufacturing, area of 607mm2, with 48 Arm Cortex-A75 cores, 2GHz and 120W TDP.

There are 12 compute clusters on this SoC, each containing four cores and four 512 KB L3 cache blocks. Each core contains its own 512 KB L2 cache and two 64 KB L1 cache blocks.

In the middle of the SoC is a four-by-four grid of 2 MB L4 cache blocks for a total of 32 MB. In addition, there are 24 MB of L3 and L2 cache and 6 MB of L1 cache on the SoC: a total of 86 MB, shared by 48 cores.

On the periphery of the SoC are the I/O controllers. The left and right sides house five PCIe 4.0 x16 controllers, three of which can double as CCIX 1.0 modules with 2-way and 4-way SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) enabled.

On the top and bottom are six memory controllers, each of which can handle one 72-bit channel up to 128GB – 768GB DDR4-3200 with ECC.

According to the specifications of Baikal Electronics’ S1000 series processors exposed on Twitter on October 14, comparing the S1000 with the 20-core Intel Xeon Gold 6148, 16-core AMD Epyc 7351 and 48-core Huawei Kunpeng 920, the performance of the S1000 is approximately It is comparable to AMD and Intel CPUs, and it also reaches 85% of the SoC of the 7nm process Huawei Kunpeng 920.

According to the specifications of Baikal Electronics’ S1000 series processors exposed on Twitter on October 14, comparing the S1000 with the 20-core Intel Xeon Gold 6148, 16-core AMD Epyc 7351 and 48-core Huawei Kunpeng 920, the performance of the S1000 is approximately. It is comparable to AMD and Intel CPUs, and it also reaches 85% of the SoC of the 7nm process Huawei Kunpeng 920.

According to Baikal Electronics’ plans, its S1000 chip appears to be planning to enter the Russian market this year or next.

However, the U.S. Department of Commerce has imposed sanctions on Russia, embargoing technologies and products including semiconductors, computers, telecommunications, information security equipment, lasers and sensors. Since then, the European Union, Taiwan and other regions have also followed up on Russia with sanctions. This has also caused wafer foundries such as Intel, TSMC, and Samsung to stop providing foundry services to Russian-related chip design companies. This also means that the Baikal Electronics S1000 processor will not be manufactured.

Although there are two integrated circuit manufacturers in Russia: Микрон (Mikron) and Ангстрем, both of them are relatively backward in technology.

Микрон can only provide 65-250 nanometer process technology, and Ангстрем (bankrupt and reorganized in 2019) has only one 8-inch fab, which can provide 90-250 nanometer process technology, mainly providing military, aerospace and industrial products.

Moreover, Mikron has also been placed on the sanctions list by the U.S. Treasury Department.

In addition, in May this year, the United Kingdom also added two major Russian processor manufacturers, MCST and Baikal Electronics, to the sanctions list. In addition to freezing their assets, the technical services provided by British companies will also be strictly regulated. This move means that Russian chip design companies may not be able to use Arm’s IP to design processors.

Although relevant sources said that the design and production licenses of all processors below Baikal Electronics’ 16nm process are still available, new Arm IP licenses will no longer be available for processors under development.

Under the dual constraints of chip design and manufacturing, Baikal Electronics has a bleak future.

Although Russia plans to invest about 3.19 trillion rubles (about 38.43 billion U.S. dollars) by 2030 in order to develop its local semiconductor manufacturing industry recently, it hopes to mass-produce the localized 90nm process by the end of 2022 and the localized 28nm process by the end of 2030.

However, under the joint sanctions of the United States and its allies, it may be very difficult to achieve this goal.

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