The Russian company Norsi-Trans will begin producing servers, data storage systems, computers and laptops based on Chinese Loongson processors. This is what the general director of the company, Sergei Ovchinnikov, told Kommersant.
A senior manager told the publication that the company purchased about 100 Loongson processors and will launch a test batch of equipment that will use them. The partner will be the developer of the Viola operating system, the company Basalt SPO.
Such equipment will be produced for government and corporate clients and will be included in the electronic registry of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.
According to Oleg Izumrudov, CEO of the consortium of Russian storage system developers, Russian companies will purchase chips from the Loongson 5000 series, the performance of which is comparable to the 10th generation Intel Core i5.
Loongson was founded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2002, so Beijing wanted to offer an alternative to American Intel and AMD processors.
In December last year it was reported that Chinese authorities banned the supply of Loongson processors to the Russian Federation.
As the publication’s market interlocutor said, not only Norsi-Trans plans to purchase Loongson processors. There are already projects that use this type of chips. For example, Promobit, which produces equipment under the Bitblaze brand.
Author:
Natalia Gormaleva
Source: RB
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