Russian Electronics: Semiconductor and Processors #2

Russian board with 48-core Baikal-S processor

Russian board with 48-core processor Baikal-S

New Russian motherboard AQBS1000 with 48-core processor Baikal-S. The board was developed and released by the company "Aquarius", intended for server solutions.
The AQBS1000 has a MicroATX form factor, reduced in width (244 × 234 mm). The new motherboard has: 4 PCIe Gen 4 slots (x16 / x8 / x8 / x8), 4 OCuLink PCIe Gen 4 (x8 or 2 × 4 each), 4 SATA III ports via Mini-SAS HD connector, Dedicated BMC 10/100/1000 Base-T management interface, 2 10/100/1000 Base-T CPU interfaces, 2 x USB 2.0 Type-A on the rear panel, 2 x USB 3.0 Type-A on the rear panel, 2 x USB 3.0 Type-A via a 19-pin connector, internal USB 3.0 Type-A.

https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/165448/

More information about Russian semiconductor work.

This is 1 of the reasons why I don't bother to be invested in China's 6th generation aircrafts because they will be using MMICs for it which will make it obsolete later. their air to air missile and engines is nowhere near Russia or the US either.

We don't really know that... besides it is very much about design.

If you take a pocket calculator with a very basic computer chip... it can calculate equations fast enough for most math students... they don't need a massive octa core 3.5 GHz processor to do most of their work.

Before processors were fast they were custom designed for the job and could do a pretty good job.

Obviously high speed processors means instead of hard wiring capability you can do everything with software and it becomes rather more flexible and complex...

More processing power normally means more bandwidth so despite new aircraft getting more powerful processing power, they also get much more processing power intensive jobs like processing radar data or video data in real time and transmitting it to other platforms...

I certainly would not underestimate their computer hardware... the best phone I have ever had was a Huawei... and it sounds like their cars are better than western cars these days too... while being cheaper...

Was going to post this in the thread for new engines but it is more about microcontroller chips and why they are important in jet engines and cars etc etc.

There really is no excuse for Russia to be so far behind the curve in lithography. Russia is fully capable of producing the lasers, the
mirrors, the stepper motors and every freaking component of an EUV lithography machine. ASML outsources critical components when
Russian companies can supply any Russian EUV machine developer.

I will repeat, they need prototypes and not paper plans. The real world requires physical entities and not just concepts. No high level
technology can be developed without prototypes. This is the same issue as with the Russian space industry. The are talking about
building the Zeus nuclear tug in the 2040s. Give me a f*cking break. It is clear that deciders are under the terminal delusion that
they will assemble systems in a finished state. That's not how the real world works. Build some primitive form of Zeus and see
what the real world problems are. So what if it costs money. This is a BS argument since waiting until the 2040s is a waste of money
also. In the case of EUV lithography no money argument applies at all. Saving the money has resulted in no capability and extortion
exposure from the NATzO west. What is the cost of this?

Bean counters should be shot on sight.

The video about the PD-14 micro-controllers brings up an important aspect in Russian vs. western tech. Russia has a tradition of being able to
code on a much higher level and extract more from "inferior" hardware. You can bet your last cent that those micro-controllers are running algorithms
that western companies cannot develop. So they use CPUs to run bloated hack code written by chimps who do not know what an algorithm is.
It is not "goto" statements. You see the evidence of this garbage code in your PC where firmware and drivers are shit. The OS is shit and the
only "solution" is to throw more CPU resources and RAM at it.

Anyone who doubts the above should buy a clue about the 737MAX. Morons writing moron code. The F-35 is the cream of the crop
of this "high tech" western garbage.

Well, it's a good thing they have developed prototypes. Mind you, on older node tech. But they have a working unit. So that means they are not far off.

The space industry is a different case and I agree with you. The space industry has been stunted by its own accords and currently they are doing right thing by going back to basics until they have a solid plan.

A draft X-ray optical scheme of a maskless X-ray lithograph with a laser-plasma radiation source.
A design has been developed for an X-ray optical system for a maskless lithograph based on a 13.5 nm point laser-plasma radiation source and a microelectromechanical system of micro mirrors as a dynamic mask. The created three-mirror projection lens with a 400-fold reduction in the pixel size of the mask of 8x8 microns provides an estimated lithograph performance of more than 1 plate of A200 mm per hour with a resolution of up to 20 nm. The prototyping of optical elements has confirmed the basic principles embedded in the design of an X-ray maskless lithograph, which allows us to begin the stage of development work on its creation.

...from the report on the results of the Institute of Physics of Microstructures of the Russian Academy of Sciences for 2022