
When it comes to sovereign computing, it either goes south due to a lack of resources — or it goes the Chinese knockoff way and ceases to be sovereign.
After Putin ordered the government to develop a Russian game console in the spring, the Russian industry has chosen to go both ways. One is to design a sovereign console based on a dual-core homegrown Elbrus processor, Habr.com reports; another is to build a cloud gaming service based on cheap consumer hardware and call it sovereign, as it looks from an RBC report.