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Baikal Electronics OJSC is a developer of integrated circuits. T-Platforms (a domestic supplier of supercomputer solutions) registered Baikal Electronics in January 2012.

The company's tasks include creating systems on a chip (SoC) using advanced methods of computer-aided design, verification and preparation for production. The company's developments are designed for use in energy-efficient computer and industrial systems with different levels of performance and functionality.

Main areas of activity

• Design of logic, integrated circuits and systems on a chip (SoC)
• Computer simulation of logic
• Verification, Functional Testing, and Chip Optimization
• Chip Packaging Design
• Firmware Design
• Development of prototypes, benches and documentation
• Stress tests and sample perfection
• Preparing Chips for Mass Production Phase

Investors

As of July 2015, a little less than 2 billion rubles were invested in the company, Vsevolod Opanasenko, founder of Baikal Electronics, told RBC. The funds, according to him, were invested by shareholders (the beneficiaries include Opanasenko himself, VEB and Rusnano), as well as the Ministry of Industry and Trade - within the framework of the federal target program "Development of the electronic component base and radio electronics for 2008-2015." In what shares the parties invested, he did not disclose^[1].

Performance indicators

2021: Revenue growth 11.7 times to RUB 162.6 mln

At the end of 2021, Baikal Electronics increased its revenue very sharply. This became known on April 21, 2022. According to "Kontur. Focus," over the specified period, its growth among the creators of the Baikal line exceeded 1000%.

If at the end of 2020 the revenue of Baikal Electronics LLC was at the level of 13.9 million rubles, then at the end of 2021 - at the level of 162.6 million rubles. Thus, according to this indicator, the company's business has grown 11.7 times.

Despite this, the last year for the organization did not become a record. In particular, at the end of 2017, revenue slightly exceeded 207 million rubles, at the end of 2018 - 158 million rubles, at the end of 2019 - 198 million rubles.

But the company's balance sheet became a record in 2021. It increased by 69% to 8.25 billion rubles.

As for net profit, Baikal Electronics is negative again. Net loss amounted to 194.4 million rubles. This is significantly less than a year earlier, when the net loss was at the level of 493.9 million rubles, that is, it was 2.5 times more^[2]

History

2024: Baikal Electronics fought off the bankrupt T-Platforms, which demanded 500 million rubles from it

In March 2024, the Moscow Arbitration Court decided that Baikal Electronics owes nothing to T-Platforms in a lawsuit from the latter. T-Platforms demanded that Baikal Electronics compensate it for damage in the amount of 500 million rubles. This follows from a court decision published in March in the Electronic Justice system^[3].

The legal dispute arose due to an agreement between companies for the supply of Baikal M processors, which T-Platforms needed to work on the project to develop basic technologies for the production of priority electronic components and electronic equipment. Under this project, T-Platforms received a large subsidy from the T-Platforms of Industry and Trade.

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The T-Platforms court said that Baikal Electronics was delayed in fulfilling its obligations under the processor supply agreement, which, in turn, led to a delay in fulfilling T-Platforms 's obligations to the Ministry of Industry and Trade and subsequently led to the termination of agreements on the provision of subsidies in the amount of over 2.7 billion rubles and recovery from T-Platforms in favor of the Ministry of Industry and Trade also a fine of 500 million rubles.

As the court established, within the framework of the contract for the supply of T-Platforms processors, Baikal Electronics had to pay an advance of 15 million rubles. However, this did not happen. Using the legal right, due to the non-receipt of the advance, Baikal Electronics suspended the fulfillment of its obligations. Thus, the court believes, the processor manufacturer cannot be considered overstayed in fulfilling its counter-supply obligation.

Baikal M processors were also developed with state support - a subsidy from the Ministry of Industry and Trade was provided for this. T-Platforms indicated that the timing of the development of processors under this project has been changed. But the court notes that the company fulfilled its obligations to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, was not brought to any responsibility for violating the terms of the project for the development of Baikal Electronics processors. And Baikal did not have obligations to T-Platforms to develop processors.

The Baikal-M microprocessors were developed, launched on the market, which means that T-Platforms could fulfill its obligations to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the court decided.

T-Platforms, we recall, in September 2022 was declared bankrupt, bankruptcy proceedings were opened against the company.

2023

T-Platforms sell Baikal processor technologies for half a billion rubles

On August 17, 2023, T-Platforms, as part of the bankruptcy procedure, put up for auction the assets of Baikal Electronics, a supplier of Russian Baikal processors and integrated circuits.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, 3.46 million shares of Baikal Electronics JSC, which belong to T-Platforms, will go under the hammer. We are talking about a 1 percent share in this microchip developer. The cost of the package is approximately 2 million rubles (100% of the company's shares are estimated at 217.3 million rubles).

T-Platforms sell Baikal processor technologies for half a billion rubles

In addition, T-Platforms intend to implement the results of the intellectual activity of Baikal Electronics - technologies used in the development and production of Baikal-M microprocessors, motherboards, components for laptops, blade servers and other electronics and computer equipment. Training video materials are also put up for auction. In general, for all the listed assets of T-Platforms, they expect to receive 484 million rubles.

However, market participants doubt the value of the developments sold. The fact is that Baikal-M is an outdated processor, the products on which, in fact, are not needed by anyone. In addition, it is difficult to find qualified specialists who are familiar with these chips and will be able to continue the development of the project. Third-party companies, according to experts, will find it easier to develop a product anew than to try to adapt T-Platforms solutions to their own needs.

At the same time, the general director of Promobit Maxim Koposov admits that the results of the intellectual activity of T-Platforms may be "relevant for engineers of those companies that did not solve such problems" as "educational material." But in this case, financial questions arise: experts say that within the framework of bankruptcy, assets are often assessed not on the basis of real market value, but on the basis of how much money was spent on their development.^[4]

No change to Linux kernel

In mid-March 2023, it became known that the Linux development community refused to accept patches and fixes to the kernel code of this operating system from the Russian company Baikal Electronics.

According to CNews, the rejection comes from the American non-profit organization Linux Kernel Organization, which oversees the development of the platform kernel. Measures against Baikal Electronics became known from correspondence between an employee of this company Sergey Semin and one of the members of the Linux Kernel Organization Jakub Kicinski. The latter, judging by information from social networks, also works for Meta (recognized in Russia as an extremist organization; activities on the territory of the Russian Federation are prohibited). In the Linux community, Kitsinsky is responsible for adding changes to the code related to supporting the AArch64 architecture (Arm64), on the basis of which the Baikal Electronics chips are built.

NPO Linux Kernel Organization asked Baikal Electronics to stop taking part in the development of the Linux kernel

Semin indicated in the correspondence that the more he tried to add support for Baikal Electronics to the Linux kernel, the more he found errors, and proposed edits for them. However, Kitsinsky replied to him that his organization was "uncomfortable" accepting edits from people from Baikal Electronics, and asked him to stop taking part in the development of the Linux kernel before further notifications, the CNews publication says.

Market participants note that the observed situation is "the first case of political militarism in the world of open source software [free software]." Baikal Electronics is under European sanctions. But the code of the Linux kernel and its basic components is freely distributed based on the GPL license, which allows everyone to use it and make changes, provided that the modified code is also publicly available. In this regard, experts believe, the Linux Kernel Organization's decision regarding Baikal Electronics may have "completely tectonic consequences."^[5]

2022

Inclusion in the sanctions list of the US Treasury

On September 15, 2022, the US Treasury once again updated the Russian segment of the sanctions list, including dozens of individuals and legal entities. Among them are companies related to the development and production of microelectronics and computer technology. Read more here.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), in particular, included in the SDN (Specially Designated Nationals) list such companies as Baikal Electronics, ICST, SPC, Multiclet, Angstrom, Yadro Fab Dubna (a full-cycle plant for the production of computer equipment and telecom equipment), manufacturer of computer technology "Aquarius," International Center for Quantum Technologies.

Hit by British sanctions

In early May 2022, the British authorities expanded sanctions against Russian developers of MCST and Baikal Electronics processors. In addition to freezing assets, the measures taken involve a ban on the provision of technological services, including the use of current processor models in new architecture developments by the British company ARM and possible restrictions on production at factories around the world.

As Sergey Glandin, head of Pen & Paper's practice of sanctions law and compliance, explained to Kommersant, the new sanctions do not oblige British companies to revoke the intellectual property licenses they have already issued, but they will not be able to pay for new licenses without the permission of the British Financial Sanctions Administration (OFCI).

Britain has imposed sanctions against manufacturers of Elbrus and Baikal processors. They may be left without an ARM architecture

Baikal has design and production licenses for all processors. However, the company has only design licenses for the new processors, which are in development by early May 2022, the source said.

Without a production license, factories will not work with the company, another source explained. Thus, Baikal Electronics will not be able to produce new processors at the UMC, GlobalFoundries and TSMC factories, the source said.

According to him, Russian manufacturers have two ways - finding those who will violate patent law, or switching to open systems - RISK V, MIPS, VLIW, which will require about 2-3 years to restructure processes and up to 1 billion rubles of investments.

The preliminary version of the national project in the field of radio electronics involves financing in the amount of 3.19 trillion rubles until 2030. But, according to one of the newspaper's sources, given the restrictions on access to equipment, development tools and licenses, even with the allocation of such funds, it will be very difficult to create your own production from scratch.^[6]

Cooperation with Astroy and MIREA

On February 17, 2022, RTU MIREA, Astra Group of Companies and Baikal Electronics announced cooperation. The agreements signed by the university and vendors were the beginning of a comprehensive collaboration between a key technological university and domestic developers of microelectronics and software aimed at training IT specialists. Read more here.

2021

Cooperation with GS Group in the development of the domestic electronic component base

Baikal Electronics and GS Group begin cooperation in the development of the domestic electronic component base. Baikal Electronics announced this on November 30, 2021.

In accordance with the agreement, the companies plan to develop cooperation aimed at implementing projects in the field of domestic microcircuits.

The agreement provides for cooperation in the development of a domestic element base and electronic components for data storage systems, computer equipment, peripheral and telecommunication equipment, joint development of priority projects, as well as creating conditions for the introduction of created innovative technologies and products. In addition, Baikal Electronics and GS Group are planning joint work in the implementation of projects for the development and production of domestic microcircuits, as well as in the production of computer equipment in the Russian Federation.

Industry cooperation is one of the effective tools for developing and increasing the competitiveness of Russian microelectronics. We and our partners have extensive experience in implementing the most complex innovative projects in this area. I am sure that the synergy of efforts will allow companies to implement joint projects that are truly breakthrough for the domestic market, including in terms of increasing the depth of localization of the element base, "commented Fedor Boyarkov, director of production development at GS Group.

We expect that the signing of this agreement will contribute to the achievement of one of our key goals - a significant increase in the share the Russian processors and electronic components in domestic computing, - said the Andrey Evdokimov general director of Baikal Electronics.

Entering into an agreement with four design centers

On October 8, 2021, the Baikal Electronics company announced that within the framework of the implementation of a comprehensive program designed import substitution to solve the issue of technological independence, and in countries order to saturate Russian IT the market with competitive protected domestic and solutions, it concluded agreements with 4. design centers

Partnership agreements between Baikal Electronics, a Russian high-integrated semiconductor processor manufacturer of systems and 4 design centers: Gaodi Rus"," Project Lagrange"," "" and Elpiteh"" Edelweiss are designed to provide company partners motherboards and solutions based on. processor Baikal-M Combining the efforts of Russian developers, manufacturers and, program hardware according to the company, will allow creating Russian solutions of the level expected by customers - both in terms sight of performance and functionality at the level of international developers, and in terms of competitive prices.

"Baikal Electronics sets itself the task of creating a full-fledged partner ecosystem that will allow import substitution in computing. Independent design centers are an important element of such an ecosystem. Their task is to become centers of competence in the development of devices based on Baikal processors, which will allow them to provide design services to a large number of computer manufacturers. Baikal Electronics, for its part, provides support for design centers both in terms of vendor consulting and in terms of customer search. On October 8, 2021, we entered into a partnership agreement with 4 design centers, and this is far from the final number, "- comments Andrey Edokimov, General Director of Baikal Electronics.

"We have been interacting with Baikal Electronics for many years and have released several motherboards and development boards on Baikal-M. We hope that the signing of this agreement will be another point of growth in our cooperation and speed up the release of the following solutions and products on Baikal processors, "- stated Alexander Grishchenkov, CEO of Elpitech.

"We are pleased with our expanding cooperation with Baikal Electronics. Two years of working together has been quite productive for us. I believe that Baikal's open policy towards developers electronic engineers such as us will serve as the basis for the development of the engineering community and the Russian computer industry based on domestic processors. The status of a technology partner of a strong processor company is the next step in our development and, time as we understand it, a certain credit of trust. We will justify him, "- added Alexander Kornev, CEO of Project Lagrange.

Edelweiss highly appreciates the long-term partnership with Baikal Electronics. We are one of the first board developers based on the domestic Baikal-M processor and are confident that our technological cooperation will allow faster launch of products for the implementation of the import substitution program, "- stated Kirill Alifanov, CEO of Edelweiss.

"We highly appreciate Baikal processors and are confident in the prospects for their wide application, not only in Russia, but also in the world market. As an international company, together with colleagues from Baikal Electronics, we will be able to promote Baikal processors for our customers around the world, "- concluded Oleg Gitin, General Director of Gaody Rus.

"In the process of import substitution, a turning point has come. Domestic competition should appear among domestic developments: this way companies will be able to choose from many products, and Russian manufacturers will have an incentive for development. From this point of view, the fact that Baikal Electronics has signed a contract with 4 design centers that will produce motherboards and solutions based on them in Russia is especially important for the development of the Russian ecosystem around Baikal processors, "- summed up the director of business development Baikal Electronics Vitaly Bogdanov.

Investing 23 billion rubles in new processors

In early July 2021, it became known about the plans of Baikal Electronics to invest 23 billion rubles in expanding the range of processors. New solutions can be used in laptops, tablets, storage systems, supercomputers and projects in the field of artificial intelligence.

Baikal Electronics plans are indicated in the product strategy until 2025, approved by the board by the company's director in June 2021. As Kommersant writes with reference to this document, investments will be carried out at the expense of their own funds, state subsidies and borrowed financing.

Baikal Electronics invests 23 billion rubles in new processors

Baikal intends to increase the number of processors produced to 600 thousand units per year. To do this, it is planned to use TSMC production facilities. The updated lineup will be based on three next-generation Baikal models based on the ARMv9 architecture, which will be used for desktop computers (Baikal M2), laptops with tablets (Baikal L) and storage systems (Baikal S2). Topological norms of products will be from 6 to 12 nanometers. The company's current (by July 2021) processors are produced according to 28nm standards.

According to the general director of Baikal Electronics Andrei Evdokimov, the possibility of developing a new line of processors based on the open RISC-V architecture is also being considered. Such solutions, he said, can be used in telecommunications equipment.

The issue of creating a line of artificial intelligence accelerators both for work in data centers and for advanced processing on devices is being studied, he added.

According to Ivan Pokrovsky, Executive Director of the Association of Russian Developers and Electronics Manufacturers, open architecture processors can complement Baikal's product portfolio, but probably only in the segment of relatively simple solutions.^[7]

Varton bought Baikal Electronics

On June 21, 2021, it became known about the sale of Baikal Electronics to the Varton group. The participants in the transaction did not disclose its parameters, including financial and ownership structures.

According to Kommersant, citing a source familiar with the negotiations, Varton received more than 70% of Baikal Electronics shares. The head of the T1Sergey group, Solovyov, in a conversation with the publication, suggested that the cost of the Baikal Electronics business could be 3-6 billion rubles, given the potential explosive growth of orders.

Varton bought Baikal Electronics

The newspaper cites data from SPARK-Interfax that during the additional issue, the authorized capital of Baikal Electronics in April 2021 increased 45 times, from 7.7 million to 346 million rubles.

Sources of Kommersant in the microelectronics market suggest that the main owner of Varton, Denis Frolov (owns 80% of the group), intends to build an IT holding, which will include manufacturers of processors, equipment and software developers. A source familiar with the negotiations on both deals agrees, adding that the holding could become "another major player in the market."

According to the general director of Norsi-Trans Sergei Ovchinnikov, the price of the transaction was determined, among other things, by the requirements of the Ministry of Industry and Trade on the use of domestic processors in servers and data storage systems for the public sector.

Alexey Smirnov, chairman of the board of directors of BASEALT, believes that "taking into account the protectionist policy of the Ministry of Industry and Trade" in the next three years, purchases of domestic equipment by the Russian public sector, including servers and DSS, will grow significantly.

At the same time, according to Smirnov, Russian processor manufacturers by 2021 are not yet able to fully meet state demand. TSMC does not have time to fulfill orders not only of Russian, but also of foreign companies, he added.^[8]

TAdviser interview with technical director Grigory Khrenov

Grigory Khrenov, technical director of Baikal Electronics, spoke about which processors the company plans to focus on in the near future, and about the situation on the Russian microelectronics market in May 2021 in an interview with TAdviser. Read more here.

Joining the RosStorage Consortium

The consortium of Russian storage systems developers RosStorage has been replenished with another participant. Baikal Electronics, a domestic manufacturer of highly integrated semiconductor processor systems, joined the organization. This was reported on April 15, 2021 in RosSHD.

The Consortium members plan to jointly develop a series of data storage systems based on Baikal processors. Combining the efforts of Russian developers of software and hardware manufacturers will create a product of the level expected by customers - both in terms of performance and functionality, and in terms of competitive prices and warranty.

"In the process of import substitution, a turning point has come. Threats of new sanctions lead to the fact that the rapid development of new technologically independent solutions becomes necessary not only for state customers, but also for business. Domestic competition should appear among domestic developments: this way companies will be able to choose from many products, and Russian manufacturers will have an incentive for development. Baikal processors have their own advantages, which will definitely be in demand in domestic DSS, "says Oleg Emeralrudov, executive director of RosSHD.

Thanks to the use of the ARM architecture, Baikal Electronics has an extensive ecosystem of system and application software. This greatly facilitates the task of switching to Russian hardware platforms.

"Baikal Electronics sees RosStorage as an effective tool for promoting the idea of ​ ​ import substitution in the segment of data storage solutions. We cooperate closely with the members of the Consortium and see that our colleagues are playing ahead of the curve, without further ado bringing solutions based on Russian processors to the market - now on Baikal, "said Vitaly Bogdanov, director of business development at Baikal Electronics. "First of all, we value the competence of our partners. It is on their basis that we can build a partner ecosystem and present solutions for end customers. We are confident that the task of import substitution in computing is absolutely solvable if we act together. "

2020

The Ministry of Industry and Trade demanded 0.5 billion rubles from Baikal Electronics for delaying the production of processors

The Ministry of Industry and Trade demanded 500.5 million rubles from Baikal Electronics for delaying the production of processors. This became known on September 2, 2020. The Moscow Arbitration Court accepted the department's claim for proceedings on August 24.

As the press service of the department told Kommersant, in 2016 an agreement was concluded to subsidize the creation of the Baikal-M microprocessor, but the company violated the terms of the contract: the first batch had to be released in mid-2018, but it appeared only in September 2019.

According to the general director of Baikal Electronics Andrei Evdokimov, the processor was indeed released with a delay and the claims of officials are generally fair. At the same time, he called the amount of the claim incommensurable damage.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade demanded 0.5 billion rubles from Baikal Electronics for delaying the development of processors

It should be borne in mind that such processors previously did not exist in Russia and we created an innovative product. Each stage of the project contained technological risks that could shift the timing of production and were partially realized. It was impossible to accurately assess these risks and accurately indicate the timing in advance, - said Evdokimov.

Executive Director of the Association of Russian Developers and Electronics Manufacturers Ivan Pokrovsky noted that the amount of the claim is very large for the company and exceeds the annual sales of Baikal-M processors. He believes that such requirements can harm Russian companies and departments with the transition to domestic processors.

Andrei Evdokimov says that the cost of the chip development project is 2.3 billion rubles, and subsidies of 1.2 billion rubles were spent in a targeted way. By the beginning of September 2020, the first samples of end devices based on the processor were released, work is underway to create a software ecosystem around it, he added.^[9]

Memorandum of Cooperation with Astra Linux

The group of companies, Astra Linux the developer of domestic operating systems and platforms, and the Baikal Electronics virtualizations joint-stock company, the developer the Russian processors of the family, Baikal on August 17, 2020 announced the conclusion of a cooperation agreement aimed at developing cooperation in the creation of software and hardware solutions, as well as hybrid technology stacks. More. here

Depo will create a PC with a Russian processor and OS for Rosatom. Agreement signed at TAdviser conference

Greenatom, a multifunctional general service center for Rosatom, Baikal Electronics, Depot Electronics and the developer of the Astra Linux special-purpose operating system RusBITech-Astra signed an agreement of intent during the TAdviser conference Import Substitution 2020: Real Experience.

The agreement provides for joint work on the creation of a Russian workstation in the "ARM Depot Peresvet" line based on the BE-M1000 microprocessor (Baikal-M) with a package of domestic software and the possibility of modular expansion. The solution will be adapted to the requirements and systems of the nuclear industry and should contribute to the development and implementation of import-independent solutions at Rosatom. Read more here.

2019

Agreement with Open Mobile Platform and Itelma on the creation of IT products based on the domestic element base

On November 28, 2019, Baikal Electronics announced that it "Open Mobile Platform" NPP Itelma would jointly create - the Russian IT products on the basis of an element base and from operating system domestic manufacturers.

Open Mobile Platform, Baikal Electronics and NPP Itelma are planning to create information kiosks and terminals based on Russian processors and a domestic mobile operating system. The companies signed a tripartite cooperation agreement during TAdviser SummIT 2019. The companies note that the developments will be based on Baikal-M processors and the Aurora trusted mobile operating system.

As expected, after the creation and piloting of new kiosks, they can be replaced by infomats in the MPSC, prefectures of districts and city halls of Russian cities, information kiosks and terminals in courts and medical institutions, automatic examiners in the traffic police, self-service terminals in employment services.

The companies also noted that the localization of the production of a high-tech product will allow manufacturers to gain a number of regulatory advantages. Among them - an advantage in relation to the contract price in the amount of 30% of the cost for products produced on the territory of the EAEU, entry into the unified register of Russian radioelectronic products, as well as into the unified register of Russian programs for electronic computers and databases. Experts add that before putting into commercial operation, the developments will have to be certified by the FSTEC and the FSB.

The use of Russian-made components, according to experts, will allow government agencies to fulfill the requirements of regulators and simplify the procurement process. In addition, it will not be necessary to use additional means of protection when working with personal data. This will reduce the cost of the solution and simplify the implementation process.

Baikal Electronics releases ARM processor with three-year latency

On October 22, 2019, Baikal Electronics presented a new Baikal M processor designed for a large range of devices in the consumer and B2B market segments. It has a wide range of integrated communication interfaces and high computing power. Baikal Electronics produced this processor with a significant delay.

According to the statement of the founder of Baikal Electronics Vsevolod Opansenko, given earlier by RBC, the company planned to release the Baikal M processor by the end of 2016. The delay is connected, according to the general director of Baikal Electronics Andrei Evdokimov, with its technical complexity.

No one else has created machines of this size and such saturation in Russia, in addition to Baikal Electronics, said Andrei Evdokimov, adding that the fact that the company has a smaller than necessary staff of specialists had its impact on the timing of the processor development.

Like all microelectronics companies in Russia today, we are experiencing a shortage of personnel, since it is very difficult to find competent specialists now, "Evdokimov explained.

Baikal M processor "(photo - Baikal Electronics)"

Unlike the company's first chip, Baikal-T1 on the MIPS architecture, the new model is implemented on the ARM architecture. The chip is a 28 nm system-on-a-chip process system based on eight 64-bit ARM Cortex-A57 cores with a frequency of up to 1.5 GHz and an eight-core Mali-T628 GPU with a frequency of up to 700 MHz.

Baikal M is produced, like the previous generation processor - Baikal-T1, at the Taiwanese TSMS factory. All software from both processors is created by Baikal Electronics.

The production of processors is now focused on TSMS, since it is impossible to produce them anywhere else. If the corresponding factory appears in Russia, we will be happy to release our processors on it, - said Andrei Evdokimov.

The cost of the Baikal M processor, according to him, is $250.

DBM boards with Baikal M processors are already being tested by several Baikal Electronics partners. These are companies such as Aquarius, Open Mobile Platform, IRU, T-Platforms. The BE-M1000 processor, according to Andrei Evdokimov, can be used in workstations, mini-servers, embedded systems, as well as industrial automation.

Sales of the processor, according to Andrei Evdokimov, will begin in October. By the end of 2019, Baikal Electronics is counting on more than 10 processor customers.

In addition to the Baikal M processor, since 2015 the company has been producing another processor model - the Baikal-T1, which is a dual-core processor based on the 32-bit MIPS Warrior core. It can be used in the creation of household appliances, modern machines, routers, etc. According to RBC Vsevolod Opanasenko, during 2016 the company was supposed to sell 100 thousand pieces of this processor. At the same time, Opanasenko even hoped to take a share of several percent in the world market in three to five years. The company planned to sell the Baikal-T1 processor to Germany, Israel, China, Brazil, Argentina and the UAE.

As Andrey Evdokimov told TAdviser correspondent, since the release, Baikal-T1 sales have amounted to several tens of thousands of units. His customers were domestic companies.

Foreign companies tested the processor, but have not yet purchased it. For purchase, it is necessary that there is a consumer of equipment on a Russian processor abroad. There is no such consumer yet. In addition, as a manufacturer of electronic products, we cannot count abroad on the measures of state support that we have here in Russia, "said Andrei Evdokimov.

Regarding the development of a processor for mobile devices, the possibility of which, in the event of successful negotiations with the Russian manufacturer smartphones Yota Devices, was previously announced by RBC, Evdokimov said the following: "Now we are conducting such negotiations and have no plans to create a processor for mobile devices."

In March 2019, the founder of Baikal Electronics Vsevolod Opanasenko was arrested in a criminal case related to the supply of computer equipment MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS in (more). here Regarding how this affects the company, Andrei Evdokimov noted in a conversation with a TAdviser correspondent that, like the arrest of any shareholder in any company, he is a negative event for Baikal Electronics.

But the company has other shareholders who don't abandon it and support it. Moreover, now there is confidence that the company will develop further, - said Andrei Evdokimov.

At the same time, he noted that in the absence of Vsevolod Opanasenko, new projects in the company did not start. But this is due to the fact that the regime in which the company is developing does not involve new projects, the general director of the company explained. At the same time, Baikal Electronics is discussing some ideas for new processors, and some work is already underway on one - Baikal S, said Andrei Evdokimov.

Earlier, Vsevolod Opanasenko told RBC that Baikal Electronics will develop a processor for Baikal-MS microservers by the end of 2017. Regarding this statement, Andrei Evdokimov said that the release of Baikal MS, a modified version of Baikal M, was originally planned, and only after that the company wanted to make a full-fledged new processor model - Baikal S. But later they decided to make Baikal S right away. It is planned to complete its development by the end of 2020.

2017

Cooperation with VMK MSU

In May 2017, a cooperation agreement was signed in Moscow between Baikal Electronics, a Russian developer of microprocessors and integrated circuits, and the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics (VMK) of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. The signing ceremony was attended by the Dean of the Faculty of VMK, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Yevgeny Moiseev and General Director of JSC Baikal Electronics Makhson mikhail.

The partnership of the microelectronic company and one of the leading training and research centers in the field of applied mathematics, computing technology and computer science aims to create strong links between higher education and modern high-tech business. The agreement on scientific and technical cooperation provides for the use of modern computer systems built on Baikal processors in the educational process of the university, research on the analysis of the technical characteristics of such computer systems and the search for opportunities for their improvement, as well as coordination of efforts to monitor fundamental, technological and technical achievements in the field of computing systems.

As part of cooperation on the basis of the data processing center of the Faculty of VMK Moscow State University, it is planned to launch a public laboratory of domestic electronics with remote access of developers and research teams in the Russian Federation and abroad. It is also planned to hold meetings of specialists and managers of a microelectronic company with students, graduate students and graduates of the faculty, organize master classes and electives on topical topics of the microelectronic industry, organize internships and industrial practice.

2015

The Ministry of Industry and Trade allocated half a billion rubles for the production of Baikal processors

The expert council of the FRP under the Ministry of Industry and Trade approved a loan of 500 million rubles to start mass production of Baikal-T1 processors, the Vedomosti newspaper reported in August 2015. The loan was issued at 5% per annum for five years.

The funds allocated by the FRP will be used for the final stage of preparation for the start of mass production of processors, which requires a total of 778 million rubles. The missing amount of 278 million rubles. will be allocated by T-Platforms.

Russian-designed processors can be used in industrial automation and telecommunications equipment, including automated control systems, printers, routers and Wi-Fi access points.

By 2020, Baikal Electronics plans to release 5 million processors. According to the company, this should be enough to return the loan. The cost of the processor allows us to talk about its competitiveness both in Russia and abroad, the developers believed.

Baikal-T1 Processor Test Sample Release

In May 2015, the company announced ​o testing of its first product - a dual-core Baikal-T1 processor based on the 32-bit MIPS Warrior core, which proposes to consider the first domestically produced processor developed specifically for commercial rather than defense needs.

2012-2014

The company was incorporated in January 2012. The development of the first processor (Baikal-T1 on the MIPS core for embedded equipment, telecom equipment, ATMs, etc.) began in 2013, the second (Baikal-M on the ARM core for personal computers and laptops) - in 2014.

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