Baikal-L

2025

Start Order Acceptance

The Russian company Baikal Electronics began accepting orders for domestic processors Baikal-M and Baikal-L, intended for use in corporate laptops and other computing equipment. The volume of supplies by the end of 2025 may amount to several tens of thousands of processors, and by the end of 2026 it will exceed 100 thousand units, which will be the first mass commercial entry of Russian chips into the laptop market. This was announced storage systems Oleg Emeraludov by the director of the consortium of Russian developers on August 1, 2025.

According to Kommersant, Baikal Electronics General Director Andrei Evdokimov confirmed that all Baikal-M processors have already been sold out. The Baikal-L processor is under development, but the company does not comment on production details due to a non-disclosure agreement.

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Emeraludov noted that due to the small circulation, Russian chips will be more expensive than American Intel and AMD. The performance of the Baikal-M processor can be compared to the seventh generation Intel i3 processor released in 2017. Baikal-L, according to him, should be higher.

For the development of a new Baikal-L chip with a technological process of 12 nanometers, ₽3,8 billion was allocated from the state budget at the end of 2021. Prototypes were planned to be obtained by 2023. These processors are designed to build enterprise laptops on their basis.

Production of Baikal-M processors was started at Taiwan TSMC in 2019 using 28 nanometer technology. However, after the start of a special military operation, he To Ukraine TSMC refused to cooperate with Russian companies, including Baikal Electronics.

In mid-2025, the CEO ICL Evgeny Stepanov announced that his company had begun developing a laptop under processor Baikal-L. In March 2022, the Russian company Bitblaze began developing a laptop based on the Baikal-M processor. "^[1]

ICL began developing a laptop based on the new Russian Baikal-L processor

ICL has planned to enter the market with products on a Russian processor. This was announced at the annual ICL Partner Connect forum at the end of April 2025 by the general director of ICL Group of Companies and the computer manufacturer ICL Techno Evgeny Stepanov. "Today we are already designing motherboards for a Russian processor," he said in his speech. As explained by TAdviser Evgeny Stepanov, it is planned to produce laptops and tablets on Russian processors. At the initial stage, we are talking about using the Baikal-L processor. Read more here.

2021: Attracting 9.44 billion rubles for Baikal-L and Baikal-S2

On November 16, 2021, it became known about the allocation of two state subsidies to Baikal Electronics in the amount of 9.44 billion rubles for the creation of two new processors: Baikal-L and Baikal-S2.

As the company told CNews, the funds were provided by the Ministry of Industry and Trade following the results of the thematic competitive selection of projects for creating an electronic component base and modules for reimbursing the state for part of the costs of their implementation in September 2021.

Baikal Electronics received 9.44 billion rubles from the Ministry of Industry and Trade for the development of new processors

The ministry allocated 3.8 billion rubles for the development of the new Baikal-L processor (12 nm process technology, ARMv9 architecture). Its first engineering samples are due in 2023. It is planned that this processor will be used in Russian laptops for government agencies and education as part of import substitution.

Among other things, it is planned to create a high-performance enterprise-class laptop based on Baikal-L. From what is now on the market, the LenovoThinkPadL13 on the IntelCorei7 is called an analogue. Also on the new Baikal, it is planned to create a laptop for everyday use by ordinary personnel. In this case, the HPProBook 440 G7 on the Intel Core i3 is called an analogue.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade allocated 5.64 billion rubles for the Baikal-S2 chip (6 nm, ARMv9). This chip is planned to be used in data centers for cloud computing. It is assumed that the first batches of the processor will be ready by 2025.

In a conversation with CNews, the co-owner of the Varton group, the shareholder of its member Baikal Electronics and the general director of the Astra Linux group (also part of Varton) Ilya Sivtsev called Baikal-S2 an ambitious world-class project. The chip should become competitive, its market value will be "no higher than foreign counterparts," he said and added that the largest Russian IT companies have already become interested in the project.^[2]

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