Baikal-L

2021: Raising 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.

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

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, ARMv9 architecture). Its first engineering samples should be released in 2023. It is planned that this processor will be used in Russian laptops for government agencies and education as part of import substitution.

On the basis of Baikal-L, among other things, it is planned to create a high-performance enterprise-class laptop. From what is now represented on the market, the analogue is called LenovoThinkPadL13 on IntelCorei7. It is also planned to create a laptop for everyday use by ordinary personnel at the new Baikal. In this case, the equivalent is named HPProBook 440 G7 on the Intel Core i3.

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 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 analogues," he said and added that the largest Russian IT companies are already interested in the project.^[1]

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